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H. Bruce FranklinH. Bruce Franklin is currently the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He is widely recognized as one of America's leading cultural historians. After serving three years as a navigator and intelligence officer in the Strategic Air Command, he got his doctorate at Stanford University and then became an Assistant Professor of English there. He was a prominent activist in the movement against the Vietnam War and was fired from Stanford, despite having academic tenure, for speeches protesting the university's active involvement in the war. He is the author or editor of eighteen books and hundreds of articles on American cultural history. Books - Vietnam & Other American Fantasies.
- "War Stars: The Superweapon in the American Imagination"
- "Prison Literature in America"
- "Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the 19th Century"
- "Countdown to Midnight"
- "Prison Writing in 20th-Century America"
- "Vietnam and America: A Documented History" (co-author)
- "The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems"
- "The Wake of the Gods: Melville's Mythology"
- "M.I.A., Or, Mythmaking in America"
- "Back Where You Came From"
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