The people of Greenhorns reflect the different ways Jewish immigrants took to America in the early 20th century, and how America affected them. A kosher butcher with a gambling problem. A Jewish Pygmalion. A woman whose elegant persona conceals the memory of an unspeakable horror. A boy who struggles to maintain his father’s old-world code of honor on the mean streets of Brooklyn. The “little man who wasn’t there,” whose absence reflects his family’s inability to deal with its painful memories. An immigrant’s son who “discovers America” — its promise and its dark side — as a soldier on leave in WW2. These tales recover the violent circumstances, the emotional and psychological costs of uprooting, which left the immigrant uncertain of his place in America, and show how that uncertainty shaped the lives of their American descendants. ” Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America (Atheneum, 1992) was a Finalist for the 1993 National Book Award. The citation praised it as the culmination of a “magisterial multi-volume study of the myth of the frontier . . . cultural history at its best – well argued, richly supported, critically astute, and written with genuine craft.” • Other work links cultural history with military history: Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality (Holt, 2005); No Quarter: The Battle of the Petersburg Crater, 1864 (Random House, 2009); Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution (Norton, 2012), etc. • Three historical novels. Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln (Holt, 2000) was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction (2001) and the Salon.com Book Award (2000). The Return of Henry Starr (Atheneum, 1988); The Crater (Atheneum, 1980) was the first work of fiction to be adopted as a selection by the History Book Club. • Author has been awarded fellowships from the NEH and Rockefeller Foundation; was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians in 1986, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. • Serves as consultant and on-screen interviewee for media projects on violence, racism, popular culture, the Civil War, World War I and the American West. A 2013 episode of “Moyers & Company” was devoted to the author's book Gunfighter Nation. Recent projects include “The Great War” (PBS, 2017), “Clint Eastwood” (American Masters, 2000), “Colt: Legend and Legacy” (PBS/1998), "Big Guns Talk" (TNT, 1997), “Gunpower: One Nation Under Fire” (Discovery Channel, 1996), “Guns” (ABC Turning Point, 1994), “Last Stand at Little Big Horn,” (American Experience/ PBS, 1992). The Competition Unlike the work of other writers of new-immigrant fiction (David Bezmozgis, Gary Shteyngart), or Jewish-American writers like Philip Roth, “Greenhorns” roots the sto