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

Author
Appy, Christian G.
Published
New York, New York : Viking, 2015.
Physical Description
xix, 396 pages ; 24 cm

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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.
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.
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ISBN
9780670025398 (hbk.)
0670025399 (hbk.) (hbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-384) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2014
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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