![]() After earning the Bronze Star and Purple Heart fighting in France, he became an English professor, first at Connecticut College, and later at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania. Unusually for an English professor, Fussell’s writings on American society also exemplified the characteristics of superior journalism: irreverence, accuracy, fairness, and lucidity a deep suspicion of official narratives and an obsession with often-uncomfortable truths.īorn and raised in Pasadena, California, Fussell attended Pomona College until he enlisted in the Army in 1943. With his death, America lost a steady voice for cantankerous protest against all so many pedestrian national institutions and assumptions-the gourmet restaurant, the uniform, the armed forces. ![]() Paul Fussell, historian and cultural critic, died last week at 88. ![]()
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