Elizabeth Samet Explained
Elizabeth Dale Samet (born August 14, 1969) is an author of numerous books, essays, and reviews on United States military history.
Biography
Samet has been a Professor of English at West Point since 1997, an experience that has significantly shaped her work. Samet earned her Ph.D. in English literature from Yale and her B.A. from Harvard University. She is the recipient of multiple awards and honors for her work.[1]
Samet's autobiographical book Soldier's Heart describes her experience teaching literature at the United States Military Academy, or West Point, to soldiers preparing to fight a war. In an interview with Dallas News, Samet noted that her interest in Ulysses S. Grant was what originally piqued her interest in teaching at West Point, as the military commander and president was a West Point alumnus.[2] Her work explores the soldier's experience and the heartbreaking difficulties of losing her former students to war.[3] She also seeks to make a connection between the civilian experience and that of those in the military.[4]
She frequently writes for The New Republic[5] and Bloomberg's publications.[6]
Works
Books
- Book: Samet, Elizabeth D.
. Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness . New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux . 2021 . 9780374219925 . 1227087002.
- Book: Samet, Elizabeth D.
. Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers: a Norton Anthology . New York. W. W. Norton & Company . 2015 . 9780393239690 . 902854149.
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. No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America . New York . Farrar, Straus and Giroux . 2014 . 0374222770 . 869263697 .
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. Soldier's heart: reading literature through peace and war at West Point . New York . Farrar, Straus and Giroux . 2007 . 0374180636 . 85830737 .
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. Willing obedience: citizens, soldiers, and the progress of consent in America, 1776-1898 . Stanford. Stanford University Press . 2004 . 0804747253 . 53215712 .
Other works
Awards
- 2012 Hiett Prize in the Humanities[7] [2]
- 2012 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow[8] [9]
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Soldier's Heart. 2007. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York. 0374180636.
- Web site: Hashimoto. Mike. Point Person: Our Q&A with Hiett Prize winner Elizabeth Samet. Dallas News. 22 September 2014.
- Web site: No Man's Land. Kirkus Reviews. 6 October 2014.
- Web site: Lehrer. Jim. Brown. Jeffrey. West Point Professor Seeks Paths to a 'Soldier's Heart'. PBS. 6 October 2014.
- Web site: Elizabeth D. Samet. The New Republic.
- Web site: Articles by Elizabeth Samet. BloombergView.com.
- Web site: 2012 Hiett Prize in the Humanities Recipient. The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. 22 September 2014.
- Web site: Elizabeth D. Samet . John Simon Guggenheim Foundation . 22 September 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150205071616/http://www.gf.org/fellows/17301-elizabeth-d-samet . 5 February 2015 .
- Web site: Simek. Peter. The Dallas Institute of Humanities And Culture Awards Dr. Elizabeth Samet $50K Hiett Prize. D Magazine. 22 September 2014.