Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress - Softcover

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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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"A comprehensive, well-written and moving study of the effects of military life on children--who 'serve' with no recognition or glory."--United Press International

"Gives the experience of a military childhood a weight many of us have never fully admitted, allowing our pain, finally, to be saluted alongside our pride."--The Atlantic

"I thought I was singular in all this, one of a kind. With this book, Mary Wertsch astonished me and introduced me to a secret family I did not know I had....This book is both a love letter and a troubled meditation on the way children are raised in military families."--Pat Conroy, author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides

"Wise and helpful."--Air Force Times

About the Author:
Mary Edwards Wertsch, a seasoned investigative reporter and writer, was raised in a career Army infantry family. By the time she was 18 she had lived in 20 different houses in three countries. Currently she lives in the Midwest in dwelling no. 43 with her husband and two sons, and continues to write and lecture about the military brat cultural identity she has been credited with identifying.

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  • PublisherBrightwell Publishing
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 097760330X
  • ISBN 13 9780977603305
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages452
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