"Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. ... [book title] explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II …
Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths o…
Masculine Style argues for the importance of "cowboy masculinity" from late nineteenth-century dime novels to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister. Daniel Worden analyzes the democratic politics of masculin…
