@Book{1851989005,
author="George, Aaron",
title="When cowboys come home: veterans, authenticity, and manhood in post-World War II America",
year="2024",
publisher="Rutgers University Press",
address="New Brunswick",
keywords="Authors, American; World War, 1939-1945; Veterans; Masculinity in literature; Biographies",
abstract="``When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post-World War II America 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, From Here to Eternity; Stewart Stern, one of the most important screenwriters of the fifties and sixties; 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''--",
note="Aaron George",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9781978821569",
language="English"
}