"Emily S. Rosenberg has given us a fine, concise study of war, memory, and mythmaking in America that will prove equally appealing to teachers, students, and general readers."--John W. Dower, author of "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II"

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. Signifying Pearl Harbor: The First Fifty Years 9
1. Infamy: Reinvigorating American Unity and Power 11
2. Backdoor Deceit: Contesting the New Deal 34
3. Representations of Race and Japanese-American Relations 53
4. Commemoration of Sacrifice 71
II. Reviving Pearl Harbor after 1991 99
5. Bilateral Relations: Pearl Harbor's Half-Century Anniversary and the Apology Controversies 101
6. The Memory Boom and the "Greatest Generation" 113
7. The Kimmel Crusade, the HIstory Wars, and the Republican Revival 126
8. Japanese Americans: Identity and Memory Culture 140
9. Spectacular History 155
10. Day of Infamy: September 11, 2001 174
Notes 191
Bibliography 213
Index 229

Emily S. Rosenberg is DeWitt Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College. She is the author of Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930 (also published by Duke University Press) and Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945. She is coauthor of In Our Times: America since World War II and Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People.