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Elizabeth Samet is a published author of numerous books, essays, and reviews on United States military history. She 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. 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 to soldiers preparing to fight a war at the United States Military Academy, or West Point. 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]

Bibliography

Books

  • Samet, Elizabeth D. (2014). No man's land : preparing for war and peace in post-9/11 America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374222770. OCLC 869263697.
  • Samet, Elizabeth D. (2007). Soldier's heart: reading literature through peace and war at West Point. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374180636. OCLC 85830737.
  • Samet, Elizabeth D. (2004). Willing obedience: citizens, soldiers, and the progress of consent in America, 1776-1898. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804747253. OCLC 53215712.

Other Works

Awards

  • 2012 Hiett Prize in the Humanities[3]
  • 2012 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow[4]

References

  1. ^ Soldier's Heart. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007. ISBN 0374180636.
  2. ^ Hashimoto, Mike. "Point Person: Our Q&A with Hiett Prize winner Elizabeth Samet". Dallas News. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  3. ^ "2012 Hiett Prize in the Humanities Recipient". The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Elizabeth D. Samet". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 22 September 2014.