02061cam a2200301 i 4500 608224566 TxAuBib 20221206120000.0 221024s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022034665 9781645037095 HRD 29.00 1645037096 HRD 29.00 TxAuBib rda Rubin, Lyle Jeremy, author. Pain is weaknees leaving the body [BOOK] : a marine's unbecoming / Lyle Jeremy Rubin. First edition. New York : Bold Type Books, 2022. vii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the “war on terror” was necessary to national security. He also subscribed to a strict code of manhood that military service conjured and perpetuated. Then he began to train and his worldview shattered. Honorably discharged five years later, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his beliefs, about himself or his country, intact. In Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failings of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The result is a searing analysis and the story of one man’s personal and political conversion, told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian, and veteran transformed. Provided by publisher. 20221206. Rubin, Lyle Jeremy. United States Marine Corps Officers Biography. Marines United States Biography. Autobiographies.