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Adams, Michael Charles Corringham was born on July 26, 1945 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. Came to the United States 1972. Son of Albert Edward and Mabel Saxton (Clarke) Adams.
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Fighting for Defeat: Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865
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Fighting for Defeat argues that the Union army’s lack of success in the eastern theater early in the Civil War was due largely to its fear that the Confederate army was invincible. Certain to arouse discussion, this study by Michael C. C. Adams combines probing social and psychological analysis, blood-rushing description of events, and candid pictures of President Lincoln, and Generals George McClellan and Ulysses Grant, among many others. It was first published in 1978 with the main title Our Masters the Rebels.
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The Best War Ever: American and World War II
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The Best War Ever Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Fighting for Defeat: Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865 Paperback March 1, 1992
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The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment) Paperback
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The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment)
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Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war than World War I. Although we did not seek the conflict―or so we believed―Americans nevertheless rallied in support of the war effort, and the nation’s soldiers, all twelve million of them, were proud to fight. But according to historian Michael C. C. Adams, our memory of the war era as a golden age is distorted. It has left us with a misleading―even dangerous―legacy, one enhanced by the nostalgia-tinged retrospectives of Stephen E. Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. Disputing many of our common assumptions about the period, Adams argues in The Best War Ever that our celebratory experience of World War II is marred by darker and more sordid realities. In the book, originally published in 1994, Adams challenges stereotypes to present a view of World War II that avoids the simplistic extremes of both glorification and vilification. The Best War Ever charts the complex diplomatic problems of the 1930s and reveals the realities of ground combat: no moral triumph, it was in truth a brutal slog across a blasted landscape. Adams also exposes the myth that the home front was fully united behind the war effort, demonstrating how class, race, gender, and age divisions split Americans. Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia, shell-shocked soldiers grappled with emotional and physical trauma, rigorously enforced segregation, and rampant venereal disease. In preparing this must-read new edition, Adams has consulted some seventy additional sources on topics as varied as the origins of Social Security and a national health system, the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the relationship of traumatic brain injuries to the adjustment problems of veterans. The revised book also incorporates substantial developments that have occurred in our understanding of the course and character of the war, particularly in terms of the human consequences of fighting. In a new chapter, "The Life Cycle of a Myth," Adams charts image-making about the war from its inception to the present. He contrasts it with modern-day rhetoric surrounding the War on Terror, while analyzing the real-world consequences that result from distorting the past, including the dangerous idea that only through (perpetual) military conflict can we achieve lasting peace.
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Our Masters the Rebels: A Speculation on Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865
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Here is a bold, new interpretation of the military conduct of the Civil War that sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual life of antebellum America. Adams challenges the prevailing view that in the Virginia campaigns superior Southern military skills led to Confederate victories. The union armies, he argues, defeated themselves by assuming Southern superiority. Northerners saw in the South, which they defined as an area ruled by aristocracy, many values that they believed were lacking in their own newly developing bourgeois and commercially oriented society. Too, they held inflated notions about the martial capacity of their foe and their leaders enforced this view. Even after the war, the Southern military tradition bewitched Northerners. Grant's hammering tactics and Sherman's destruction made Northerners guilty and led them to believe that they had not outfought the South but only trampled them down by numbers. Thus the idea of the Lost Cause was born and the romantic myth of the South was reinforced in a harsh Northern workaday world. Only in our day have the historical layers been stripped away to yield harsher truths and reality.
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The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment) 2nd edition by Adams, Michael C. C. (2015) Paperback
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The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment)
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Was it really such a "good war"? It was, if popular memory is to be trusted. We knew who the enemy was. We knew what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. It was a war of tanks and airplanes―a cleaner war than World War I. Americans were united. Soldiers were proud. It was a time of prosperity, sound morality, and power. But according to historian Michael Adams, our memory is distorted, and it has left us with a misleading―even dangerous―legacy. Challenging many of our common assumptions about the period, Adams argues that our experience of World War II was positive but also disturbing, creating problems that continue to plague us today.
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Michael Charles Corringham Adams
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Michael Charles Corringham Adams, British history educator. Recipient Jefferson Davis Book award Museum Confederacy, 1979, British Government scholar, 1963-1970. Member American Association of University Professors, Modern Language Association, American Association University Administrators, Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Delta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor magna cum laude, University Wales, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, University Sussex, Brighton, England, 1973.
Career
Assistant to group personnel manager, Glassbulbs Ltd., Harworth, England, 1966; graduate assistant in history, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1967-1969; lecturer in English, N. Notts College of Further Education, Worksop, England, 1970-1972; assistant professor of history, Northern Kentucky U., Highland Heights, 1972-1977; assistant to president, Northern Kentucky U., Highland Heights, 1976-1977, 80-81; associate provost, Northern Kentucky U., Highland Heights, 1977-1980; chair history and geography, Northern Kentucky U., Highland Heights, 1981-1985, 93-; associate professor of history, Northern Kentucky U., Highland Heights, 1977-1983; professor of history, Northern Kentucky U., Highland Heights, since 1983. Board directors Kentucky Humanities Council, 1983-1987. Consultant Kentucky History Society, Frankfort, Kent State University Press.
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Fighting for Defeat: Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865
( Fighting for Defeat argues that the Union army’s lack o...)
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Our Masters the Rebels: A Speculation on Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865
(Here is a bold, new interpretation of the military conduc...)
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The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment)
( Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memo...)
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The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment)
( Was it really such a "good war"? It was, if popular mem...)
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The Best War Ever: American and World War II
(everything in tact. minimal wear.)
- Our Masters the Rebels
- The Best War Ever Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Fighting for Defeat: Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865 Paperback March 1, 1992
- The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment) Paperback
- The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment) 2nd edition by Adams, Michael C. C. (2015) Paperback
- The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment) by Michael C. C. Adams (2015-03-19)
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Fighting for Defeat: Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865
Membership
Member American Association of University Professors, Modern Language Association, American Association University Administrators, Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Delta Kappa.
Interests
Connections
Married Joan Gregory, August 24, 1969 (divorced 1984). Children: Davith Owen Edward, Kathleen Saxton Francis. Married Susan Steves Kissel, July 11, 1985.
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Born
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Nationality
British
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1966
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1973
Career
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1966
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1967 - 1969
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1970 - 1972
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1972 - 1977
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1981 - 1985