Books by John (Indiana University) Bodnar

Instead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination.

In building this narrative, Bodnar shows how the idealism of President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms was lost in the public commemoration of World War II, how the war's memory became intertwined in the larger discussion over American national identity, and how it only came to be known as the "good warmany years after its conclusion.