Elizabeth D Samet

Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America ; Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point , which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times ; and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898 . Samet is the editor of Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers , The...See more

Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America ; Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point , which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times ; and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898 . Samet is the editor of Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers , The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant , and World War II Memoirs: Pacific Theater . The recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, she was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support the research and writing of Looking for the Good War . She is a professor of English at West Point. See less