Paul Fussell, critic, essayist, and cultural commentator, has recently won the H. L. Mencken Award of the Free Press Association. Among his books are The Great War and Modem Memory, which in 1976 won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award; Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars; Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War; and, most recently, BAD or, The Dumbing of America. His essays have been collected in The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations and Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches English at the University of Pennsylvani
Chicago Sun-Times Highly amusing....a witty, persnickety, and
illuminating book....fussell hits the mark.
The Washington Post Move over, William Buckley. Stand back, Gore
Vidal. And run for cover, Uncle Sam: Paul Fussell, the nation's
newest world-class curmudgeon, is taking aim at The American
Experiment.
Alison Lurie The New York Times Book Review A shrewd and
entertaining commentary on American mores today. Frighteningly
acute.
Wilfrid Sheed The Atlantic A fine prickly pear of a book....Anyone
who reads it will automatically move up a class.
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