The story behind an American icon--a group of Marines risking their lives for Old Glory at the battle of Iwo Jima--that has been reproduced in posters, stamps, movies, and sculpture
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Karal Ann Marling is Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.
This gripping book has much to say about war symbolism in popular culture, overwrought patriotism and military valor.
There is a certain resonance in "Iwo Jima." -- Richard Severo "New York Times"
This is popular culture at its best, thoroughly enjoyable to read right down to the discussion of the statue's use in political cartoons and the final chapter on the 40th reconciliation reunion with the Japanese.
There is a certain resonance in Iwo Jima .
There is a certain resonance in "Iwo Jima," -- Richard Severo "New York Times"
There is a certain resonance in "Iwo Jima". -- Richard Severo "New York Times"
There is a certain resonance in "Iwo Jima".--Richard Severo "New York Times "
It is one of the virtues of this riveting book, co-written by a university professor and a museum curator, that it embraces rather than evades the multiple ironies, paradoxes and contradictions that cluster around a single snapshot of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising a flag on a newly captured Japanese island near the ragged end of World War II. For, not surprisingly, the story of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima turns out to be the quintessentially American tale, underlining the virtues we prize and those we ignore, the competing lures of reality and illusion, and what happens when ghastly war and genuine heroism come face to face with a ravenous publicity machine and a country's need for simple answers to painfully complex questions of national purpose and personal sacrifice. It is not a pretty picture...[Marling and Wetenhall have] told this cautionary tale with remarkable even-handedness and intelligence. The story they tell is not only fascinating, it points to a chilling mora
Karal Ann Marling and John Wetenhall, two specialists on the social history of American art and architecture, examine the extraordinary career of the Rosenthal photograph and the de Weldon monument. They chose well, for as "Iwo Jima" amply documents, few symbols better illustrate the ambivalent and ever-changing American ideas about war heroism, patriotism and sacrifices...Intriguing.--Ronald Spector "New York Times Book Review "
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