One camp praises In Pharaoh's Army for being a justified critique of American innocence and the destruction resulting from its willed ignorance, naricissism, Manifest Destiny, and vain notion of exceptionalism.
Another camp of readers, however, counteragues that Wolff has laid out a worldview infected with postmodern pessimism and defeatest determinism, a world without free will or meaning.
What camp are you in? Defend your alliance by writing a debatable claim (thesis) and setting forth your argument in a Toulmin essay model.
Another version:
Defent, refute, or complicate the assertion that In Pharaoh's Army is a rigorous, uncompromising critique of American innocence and exceptionalism.
Possible counterarguments:
The book is nihilistic, mean-spirited, exaggerated, deterministic, fatalist, helpless, hopless, etc.
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