Looking for the Good War
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Elizabeth D. Samet Book order
Elizabeth D. Samet delves into the intricate connections between literature and societal structures, particularly within the military context and the evolving nature of consent. Her scholarship examines how obedience and willing participation have shaped American history, using literary analysis to illuminate the experiences of soldiers and their engagement with themes of peace and war. With extensive experience teaching at West Point, Samet offers a distinctive perspective on concepts of duty, honor, and identity. Her work invites readers to contemplate the profound interplay between individual conscience, civic responsibility, and moral frameworks.
- 2022
- 2014
Leadership
- 718 pages
- 26 hours of reading
Presents more than one hundred stories and essays that highlight the relationship between literature and leadership and creativity and strategic thinking, featuring works from a variety of writers.
- 2008
Soldier's Heart
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Includes a New Afterword by the Author A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A USA Today Best Book of 2007 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2007 What does it mean to teach literature to a soldier? How does it prepare a young man or woman for combat? At West Point, Elizabeth Samet reads classic and modern works of literature with America's future military elite, and in this stirring memoir she chronicles the ways in which war has transformed her relationship to the books she and her students read together. While fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Samet's former students share their thoughts on the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, and the films of Bogart and Cagney. And their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom. Soldier's Heart is an honest and original reflection on the relationship between art and life.