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Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body : A Marine's Unbecoming by Lyle Jeremy Rubin (2022, Hardcover)

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Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body : A Marine's Unbecoming, Hardcover by Rubin, Lyle Jeremy, ISBN 1645037096, ISBN-13 9781645037095, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian and veteran transformed, this honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home and on the psyche, describes the author’s own undoing and his personal and political conversion. 20,000 first printing.

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PublisherPublic Affairs

ISBN-101645037096

ISBN-139781645037095

eBay Product ID (ePID)11057262077

Product Key Features

Book TitlePain Is Weakness Leaving the Body : a Marine's Unbecoming

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicPublic Policy / Military Policy, Men's Studies, Military

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorLyle Jeremy Rubin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-940706

Reviews"This is not your ordinary military memoir. It is not often that one experiences a truly original mind, a way of thinking combined with literary skill and grounded in hard learned humility, but that is Lyle Jeremy Rubin on his path from acting as an instrument of empire to deconstructing it and understanding the true meaning of freedom, community, and ethics. Never has a takedown of militarism, capitalism, and empire been more powerful and persuasive."-- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, "Thoughtful... [ Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body ] is, in many ways, a bildungsroman of the 9/11 generation.... The strength of this book is that its passages on [Rubin's] yearning for violence, and his embarrassment at that yearning, are not the endpoints of his exploration, as they might be in the hands of other veterans. Yes, he is soul-searching, but the soul he examines most intensely is America's, not his own."-- The Intercept

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal359.960973

SynopsisWhen Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the "war on terror" was necessary to national security. He also subscribed to a strict code of manhood that military service conjured and perpetuated. Then he began to train and his worldview shattered. Honorably discharged five years later, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his beliefs, about himself or his country, intact. In Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failings of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The result is a searing analysis and the story of one man's personal and political conversion, told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian, and veteran transformed., An honest reckoning with the Forever War, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who came to question his belief in the U.S.'s democratizing mission In the winter of 2006, Lyle Jeremy Rubin arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School in Quantico, Virginia. He'd joined the Marines convinced he was fulfilling his duty to his country. He believed the "war on terror" was necessary to national security, and would help to bring democracy and freedom to Afghanistan. And he sought a version of manhood that he thought military service could provide. Honorably discharged in 2011, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his ideals, about himself or his country, intact. Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body is a story of profound personal and political change. Rubin, a supervisor of men ordered to kill, shares his experiences on training bases in North Carolina, California, and Afghanistan, tracking his increasing disaffection with military culture, and his evolution into an activist for peace. Rubin brings us face to face in this argument-driven memoir with the U.S.'s presence in the Middle East, all while analyzing the racism, class divides, and culture of conquest that oil the machinery of American empire., An honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran whose convictions came undone When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the "war on terror" was necessary to national security. He also subscribed to a strict code of manhood that military service conjured and perpetuated. Then he began to train and his worldview shattered. Honorably discharged five years later, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his beliefs, about himself or his country, intact. In Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failings of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The result is a searing analysis and the story of one man's personal and political conversion, told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian, and veteran transformed.

LC Classification NumberVE25.R83A3 2022