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Marilyn B. Young remains the preeminent historian of war's place in modern American history.--Michael S. Sherry, author of The Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s The essays in this collection serve as a durable testament to one of the most important academic critics of US war-making in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--Susan L. Carruthers, author of The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace Mark Philip Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak have brought together eight published and two unpublished papers from Young's long and illustrious career that provide readers with a wide-ranging introduction to why she was such an influential scholar, teacher, and activist. The editors' thoughtful introduction and Andrew Bacevich's comments in an afterword contribute significantly to the value of the volume and to our understanding of Young, who died in 2017.--Peace & Change

Marilyn Young remains the preeminent historian of war's place in modern American history. --Michael Sherry, author of The Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s The essays in this collection serve as a durable testament to one of the most important academic critics of US war-making in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. --Susan L. Carruthers, author of The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace

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Marilyn B. Young (1937-2017) was a renowned historian of American foreign relations and a longtime professor of history at New York University. Her landmark book The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 remains a defining work in the field. Mark Philip Bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College at the University of Chicago and author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. Mary L. Dudziak is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University and author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences.

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