H. Bruce Franklin, Author . Island/Shearwater $25 (265p) ISBN 978-1597261241
Franklin, a historian and author of more than 15 books (most recently Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
), was inspired by his passion for saltwater angling to write this history of the all but extinct menhaden, a fish that historically has...
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H. Bruce Franklin. Rutgers Univ, $34.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-978800-91-5
Franklin (War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination), a cultural historian, veteran, and antiwar activist, serves up a combination memoir and revisionist history of American war culture during the “more than half a century [that he has]
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H. Bruce Franklin, Author University of Massachusetts Press $37.5 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55849-279-0
""Human memory,"" Primo Levi once wrote, ""is a marvelous but fallacious instrument."" Memories change and reconstruct the past, and in this provocative study, Rutgers cultural historian Franklin argues that the American memory of Vietnam has left...
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H. Bruce Franklin, Author Lawrence Hill Books $17.95 (225p) ISBN 978-1-55652-118-8
Franklin ( From the Movement: Toward Revolution ) discusses the wide-spread conviction that American prisoners of war are still being held in Indochina as ``bargaining chips'' and that the U.S. government is not doing enough to secure their release.
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