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Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
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by Elizabeth D. Samet

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Forcefully examining what it means to be a civilian teaching literature at a military academy, Samet also considers the role of women in the Army, the dangerous tides of religious and political zeal roiling the country, and the cult of sacrifice she believes is currently paralyzing national debate.

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From the publisher

Includes a New Afterword by the Author

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A USA Today Best Book of 2007
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2007

What does it mean to teach literature to a soldier? How does it prepare a young man or woman for combat? At West Point, Elizabeth Samet reads classic and modern works of literature with America's future military elite, and in this stirring memoir she chronicles the ways in which war has transformed her relationship to the books she and her students read together. While fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Samet's former students share their thoughts on the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, and the films of Bogart and Cagney. And their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom. Soldier's Heart is an honest and original reflection on the relationship between art and life.

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  • Title Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
  • Author Elizabeth D. Samet
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, NY
  • Publication date 2008-09-30
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780312427825 / 0312427824
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects United States Military Academy, Literature and morals
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.711

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  • New York Times Book Review, 11/30/2008, Page 20

About the author

Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898. She has been an English professor at West Point for ten years.

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