Elizabeth Samet, an English professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, tells Scott Simon about some of the literature she offers to cadets — many of whom are about to go off to Iraq. One ...

The U.S. Air Force Honor Guard presents the colors during a Veterans Day ceremony at the National World War II Memorial on Nov. 11. Today, World War II is often considered a “good war,” though ...

It was an uncanny moment. I had just begun reading Elizabeth Samet’s Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021). In it, Samet ...

Toward the end of “Looking for the Good War,” Elizabeth D. Samet’s discerning new book about the gauzy mythology that has shrouded the historical reality of World War II, she reminds us of the 2019 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Elizabeth D. Samet is a Professor for English in the U.S. Military Academy with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2007 Speech. The year with ...

Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point is a fascinating account of the Samet’s tenure as an English professor, teaching cadets poetry, novels, and essays. The deep ...