Bibliograph

American reckoning, the Vietnam War and our national identity, Christian G. Appy

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American reckoning, the Vietnam War and our national identity, Christian G. Appy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-384) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American reckoning

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

881888124

Responsibility statement

Christian G. Appy

Sub title

the Vietnam War and our national identity

Summary

How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy, author of the widely praised oral history of the Vietnam War Patriots, now examines the relationship between the war's realities and myths and its impact on our national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy

Table Of Contents

Why are we in Vietnam? Saving Vietnam ; Aggression ; Paper tigers ; Vietnam, Inc. -- America at war. Our boys ; The American way of war ; The war at home -- What have we become? Victim nation ; "The pride is back" ; No more Vietnams ; Who we are

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