Paul Fussell Audio & Video

Paul Fussell zeroes in on the sacred American myth of social equality in this superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system.

National Book Award Winner Paul Fussell tells the breathtaking story of WWII from the young soldiers’ points of view.

Sean Hemingway, who has just edited a collection of his grandfather's writings titled Hemingway on War, shares his insights with Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory, and James Webb, author of the acclaimed Vietnam novel, Fields of Fire.

“This is not a book to promote tranquility, and readers in quest of peace of mind should look elsewhere,” writes Paul Fussell in the foreword to this original, sharp, tart, and thoroughly engaging work.

World War II killed 60 million people and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others.

In this amusing and trenchant book, Paul Fussell zeroes in on the death of American sensibility and taste. “We are living in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash,” he writes in this reference work that exposes bad, from bad advertising and bad ideas to bad restaurants and bad TV.