Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Introduction: Plausible Deniability Real Soldiers, True Fictions
Chapter 1: Protestors, Patriots, and Culture Warriors American Politics and The Citizen- Soldier
Chapter 2: The Fate Worse than Death Saving Face and the Affective Economy of War
Chapter 3: Trusting the Messenger Veterans’ Memoirs and the Politics of Credibility
Chapter 4: “Soldiers of Conviction” Duty, Dissent, and the Immigrant Soldier
Chapter 5: Silence Amid the Din of War the Politics and Poetics of Audibility in Brian Turner’s My Life as a Foreign Country
Chapter 6: Beginnings Stories that Need Telling
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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