Currently reading
Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tristes Tropiques
Richard III
The Dwarf
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Labyrinths
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Gravity's Rainbow
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars
Like several of Mosse's books -- including Mass and Nationalism - this book is better read than reading -- Mosse demonstrates, though the text itself is less than titillating at times - the way in which the sentimentalization or sanctification of the fallen (die Gefallenen, the war dead) was used by reactionary and nationalist politicians as a tool for the political extermination of the Left -. Based on the Post-WWI experience in Germany and in the rest of Europe, one cannot help but recognize that this phenomenon was in play in the post-Vietnam era. We have not yet seen it with Iraq, but the danger always lurks.