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Alvin Kernan

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in Manchester, Georgia, The United States

June 13, 1923

Died

May 17, 2018

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Alvin Kernan is Avalon University Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, Princeton University. He served in the US Navy, 1941-45. Among his previous books are The Fruited Plain: Fables for a Postmodern Democracy and In Plato's Cave, both published by Yale University Press. ...more

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	Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War II 4.19 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons 3.88 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Plato's Cave 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cankered Muse: Satire of the English Renaissance (Yale Studies in English, Volume 142) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fruited Plain: Fables for a Postmodern Democracy 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's Happened to the Humanities? by Alvin Kernan (Editor), William G. Bowen (Foreword), Harold T. Shapiro (Foreword) 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Renaissance Mythmakers: Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson (New Series, No. 1) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adrift: Rescues After The Battle of Midway liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attack-Repeat-Attack: The Battle for Guadalcanal a Clay Hunt Pacific War Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Put it all together and the TBDs at Midway would have been worried about gas all the time they were in the air, and the four Enterprise and two Yorktown Devastators that made it back must have been running on empty at the end of their flight.”
― Alvin Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons

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“In offering to use his own pilots, Waldron was almost surely insinuating that the fighter pilots were afraid to mix it up with the Zeroes, and at least a touch of this fear is around the edges of the overall fighter performance that morning.”
― Alvin Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons

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“I concluded that war’s cruelty and randomness, its indifference to human life, and the speed and ease with which it erases existence are not aberrations but speeded-up versions of how it always is.”
― Alvin Kernan, Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War II: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War Two

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