Lee Sandlin’s magnum opus on Americans’ amnesia about World War II makes a Russian reflect on how differently we experienced the war.
Tag: Losing the War
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Reader critic uncovers the secret purpose of Teletubbies
The British children’s show, wrote Lee Sandlin, “is the most blatant piece of prodrug propaganda since Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception.”
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Long reads from the Reader archive for your long Thanksgiving weekend
Sink your teeth into these favorite Reader features.
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Lee Sandlin, scourge of the small screen
Revisiting the take-no-prisoners TV criticism of Lee Sandlin
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RIP Lee Sandlin, longtime Reader writer
In remembrance of the author and critic, along with links to some of Sandlin’s work
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Memorial Day: “Losing the War”
His father opened his mouth to answer — and then his jaw worked, his face reddened, and, without saying a word, he got up and walked out of the room. That’s the truth about the war: the sense that what happened over there simply can’t be told in the language of peace. It’s sort of […]
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Lee Sandlin’s “Losing the War” anthologized by Ira Glass
Lee Sandlin’s great essay “Losing the War” gets anthologized by Ira Glass.