Bruce Cumings, Random/Modern, $22.00 (288p) ISBN 9780679643579
For many, the Korean War is remembered more for Hawkeye and Klinger than General MacArthur and Syngman Rhee. But for Cumings (Korea's Place in the Sun), professor at the University of Chicago, the critical issue is not one of memory, but of...
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Bruce Cumings, Author Verso $29.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-86091-374-0
Cumings ( The Origins of the Korean War ) gets a good deal off his chest in this long-winded, rambling meditation on what he sees as television's distorted reporting of America's last three major wars. His text is heavy with ad hominem attacks that...
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Bruce Cumings, Author W. W. Norton & Company $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-04011-1
Cumings's riveting history of modern Korea challenges much received wisdom. Rejecting the verdict of Western historians who support Japan's ""modernizing role"" in Korea, he characterizes the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) as a callous colonization
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Ervand Abrahamian, Author, Bruce Cumings, Author, Moshe Ma'oz, Author New Press $22.95 (213p) ISBN 978-1-56584-904-4
""Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."" Though this rhetorical workhorse is first misquoted, then dismissed by Cumings in the early pages of this essay collection, Santayana's maxim nonetheless best describes the...
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