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Made Love, Got War
Close Encounters With America’s Warfare State
By Norman Solomon
Foreword by Daniel Ellsberg
Pages: 285
Pub. Date: 5.1.08
ISBN: 9780977825349
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Like the rest of the baby-boom generation, Norman Solomon grew up in a nation of dazzling progress and ominous shadows. Behind the upbeat TV shows and glib optimism there lurked private anguish and the specter of nuclear holocaust. Young people confronted a divisive war in Vietnam and distress in their own lives. Now, several decades later, Americans face similar divisions and a potentially endless “war on terror.”
Blending personal history and social commentary, Made Love, Got War documents five decades of rising American militarism and the media’s all-too-frequent failure to challenge it. The author’s unique weave of personal narrative and historical inquiry, Daniel Ellsberg notes in the foreword, “helps us understand where we are now and how we got here.”
Drawing on 40 years of intense activism, Solomon shows how the mainstream media have shaped our view of war, technology, and national purpose. In the process, he also shows why he is considered “one of the sharpest media-watchers in the business” (Barbara Ehrenreich) and “a formidable thinker and activist” (Los Angeles Times).
Solomon’s firsthand experiences and compelling narrative raise an essential question: To what ends should America use its awesome political, economic, media, and scientific power? Made Love, Got War will help readers to find meaningful answers.
Norman Solomon is the author of twelve books, including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death and, with Reese Erlich, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and many other newspapers.
A frequent guest on television and radio, he was featured in Bill Moyers’ recent PBS documentary Buying the War and a full-length film adaptation of War Made Easy produced by the Media Education Foundation.
Solomon is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is a recipient of the George Orwell Award, which honors distinguished contributions to honesty and clarity in public language.