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Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress
Brightwell Publishing
March 2006
On Sale: March 4, 2006
452 pages
ISBN: 097760330X
EAN: 9780977603305
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Non-Fiction
This is the ground-breaking book that launched the movement
for military brat cultural identity. Based on five years of
research, including in-depth interviews with scores of adult
military brats as well as psychologists, researchers,
teachers, and others, this book examines the military as the
home culture for the millions of children who were born into
it, shaped by it, and decades later continue to bear its
stamp. Military Brats not only defines America's most
invisible minority for the first time, it also passionately
exhorts those grown children to come to terms with their
negative Fortress legacies so that they might take full
advantage of the positive endowment that is also their
birthright. For those who always considered themselves
rootless, this book is a revelation of cultural identity
that informs and liberates. Novelist Pat Conroy, raised in a
Marine family, provides a passionate introduction.
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