{"product_id":"writing-home-selected-world-war-ii-letters-of-leslie-a-fiedler-paperback","title":"Writing Home: Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. Fiedler - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeslie a. Fiedler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSamuele F. S. Pardini\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSamuele F. S. Pardini\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters written by Leslie Fiedler to his wife Margaret from May 1944 to December 1945 while he was stationed in Hawaii and various parts of the Pacific Theater as an intelligence officer during World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eF\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eoreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWar \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe letters in \u003ci\u003eWriting Home\u003c\/i\u003e offer a glimpse into a crucially formative period in the life of Leslie A. Fiedler, one of the greatest literary critics and American public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Written to his wife and two sons between May 1944 and December 1945, while he was serving as a cryptologist and translator for the Office of Naval Intelligence, they contain firsthand accounts of his experiences in various locations in the Pacific Theater, including Hawai'i, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam, and China. Constrained by Navy censors from writing directly about his work as an intelligence officer, he writes, instead, on a variety of themes, events, places, and war situations, including the ethical contradictions between a war fought for and in the name of freedom on the one hand and the oppression of indigenous Hawai'ians and prisoners of war on the other. He also questions the mainstream, European-centered view of the war and provides new insights into the role of Jewish servicemen in World War II. Finally, the letters document the beginning of the formation of American intellectual life in the years preceding the Cold War, forcing us to rethink certain premises of American exceptionalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Taken together, they offer a unique and fascinating immersion into history through the eyes of one of the makers of post-World War II American literary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie A. Fiedler (1917-2003)\u003c\/b\u003e was SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel L. Clemens Professor of English at the University at Buffalo and one of America's foremost literary and cultural theorists of the last century. The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e praised his book \u003ci\u003eLove and Death in the American Novel\u003c\/i\u003e as \"one of the great, essential books on the American imagination.\" \u003cb\u003eSamuele F. S. Pardini\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of American Studies and Italian Studies at Elon University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2018 Italian American Studies Association Book Award, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie A. Fiedler\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 524\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53539171402035,"sku":"9798855800456","price":46.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/ib3gU-eCay9798855800456.webp?v=1783051727","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/writing-home-selected-world-war-ii-letters-of-leslie-a-fiedler-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}