War and the Arc of Human Experience - Paperback

by Glenn Petersen (Author)

In this book, an anthropologist sets his experiences as a teenager fighting in the Vietnam War within the larger sweep of American culture and society. When his daughter is born decades after he returned from war the violence of those experiences, long suppressed, emerges from the shadows.

Author Biography

Glenn Petersen is professor at the City University of New York's Baruch College and Graduate Center.