Prof. Elizabeth D. Samet Professor of English English and World Languages elizabeth.samet [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of several books, including "Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness" (winner of the American Philosophical Society’s Jacques Barzun Prize) and "Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point" (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest). She has also edited three books, including the Library of America’s two-volume collection "World War II Memoirs." Her honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities. Ph.D. - Yale UniversityM.Phil. - University of St. Andrews (Scotland)A.B. - Harvard University Research Interests War literature, film, 18th-century literature and culture Selected Publications Ed. World War II Memoirs. 2 vols. New York: Library of America, 2021-24. Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Ed. The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Liveright, 2019. Ed. Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers. New York: W. W. Norton, 2015. Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.