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Roth's Wars

A Career in Conflict
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 2022

Summary

Treating Philip Roth as a war writer—as well as a sportswriter, crime reporter, political commentator, and Newark chronicler—Roth’s Wars: A Career in Conflict offers a thoroughly researched account of the novelist’s preoccupation with wars around the world and wars at home. This wide-ranging social and cultural history of Roth’s career examines intersections between Roth’s preoccupations as a writer and the work of contemporaries, such as J.D. Salinger, Joan Didion, George Plimpton, Hannah Arendt, E.L. Doctorow, Flannery O’Connor, Michael Herr, and Don DeLillo. The legends and icons who figure in this account of Roth’s career include Dwight Eisenhower, Meyer Lansky, Ernie Pyle, Bob Dylan, Johnny Appleseed, Anne Frank, JFK, Mickey Mantle, the Marx Brothers, Thomas Paine, Sandy Koufax, and Franz Kafka.

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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1384-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1385-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
174
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Preface No access
    3. Acknowledgments No access
  1. Study War No access Pages 1 - 34
  2. Rescue, Refuge, Escape No access Pages 35 - 56
  3. Don’t Count The Dead No access Pages 57 - 68
  4. Endless War (Pandora Unbound Or The Promethean Daughter) No access Pages 69 - 84
  5. Sports Wars No access Pages 85 - 112
  6. Newark Wars—Race Wars/Gang Wars No access Pages 113 - 128
  7. Jewish Wars No access Pages 129 - 148
  8. Postscript No access Pages 149 - 150
  9. Works Cited No access Pages 151 - 166
  10. Index No access Pages 167 - 172
  11. About the Author No access Pages 173 - 174

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