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comment by cliffelam
cliffelam  ·  4305 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thank You for Your Service
You're talking about the Lembcke book I suspect. It's a great book (I read it when it was published, so it's been at least 10 years) and he's a famous sociologist, but he starts with a set of premises and argues backwards. I am always amazed when a book finds no conflicting evidence. Even Studs Terkel managed to find some things that didn't fit his own views.

-XC