{"product_id":"when-cowboys-come-home-veterans-authenticity-and-manhood-in-post-world-war-ii-america-paperback-softback-9781978821569","title":"When Cowboys Come Home; Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978821569","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhen Cowboys Come Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVeterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAaron George (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978821569\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 6 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A fascinating story of three writers-veterans of World War II in search of authenticity.\"\u003cbr\u003e   - James B. Gilbert (author of Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s) \"Beautifully written and sensitively wrought, \u003ci\u003eWhen Cowboys Come Home\u003c\/i\u003e rejects the images of WWII veterans as pugilists or Organization Men. Through neglected figures, including James Jones and Edward Fields, Aaron George audaciously insists that vets took from their war experience a thirst for male bonding, camaraderie, and intense relationships.\" \u003cbr\u003e   - David Steigerwald (author of The Sixties and the End of Modern America)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America\u003c\/i\u003e is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One particularly important strand of thought, which influenced later anxieties over “other-direction” and “conformity,” argued that masculinity was not defined by traits like bravery, stoicism, and competitiveness but instead by authenticity, shared camaraderie, and emotional honesty. To elucidate this challenge to traditional “frontiersman” masculinity, Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war: James Jones, the writer of the monumentally important war novel \u003ci\u003eFrom Here to Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e; Stewart Stern, one of the most important screenwriters of the fifties and sixties, including for \u003ci\u003eRebel without a Cause\u003c\/i\u003e; and Edward Field, a bohemian poet who used poetry to explore his love for other men. Through their lives, George shows how wartime disabused men of the notion that war was inherently a brave or heroic enterprise and how the alienation they felt upon their return led them to value the authentic connections they made with other men during the war.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface: What We Bring Home\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Hemingway's Shadow\u003cbr\u003e Part I Cowboys on the Wartime Frontier\u003cbr\u003e 1 Never a Secondhand Man: James Jones and the Perils of Homecoming\u003cbr\u003e 2 The Big Noise: Stewart Stern's Long March to Gar Naruah\u003cbr\u003e 3 The \"\u003cbr\u003eAge of Heroes\"\u003cbr\u003e: Edward Field and Gay Authenticity in the Midst of War\u003cbr\u003e Part II Coming Home\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Hipster, the Prophet, and the Angel: Writers on the Edge of Eternity\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Men Who Came Running: James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony\u003cbr\u003e 6 Waiting for Peter Pan: Adulthood and How to Attain It\u003cbr\u003e 7 The Continuing Adventures of Icarus: Edward Field's Life in the Postwar Closet\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: A Nation of Gray Flannel Men\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52638404313368,"sku":"9781978821569","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/when-cowboys-come-home-veterans-authenticity-and-manhood-in-post-world-war-ii-america-paperback-softback-9781978821569","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}