American Reckoning
The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
New York, New York : Viking, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: xix, 396 pages ; 24 cm
How did the Vietnam War change the way Americans think of themselves 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 the US's national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture and postwar foreign policy. Drawing on a vast variety of sources from movies, songs and novels to official documents, media coverage and contemporary commentary, Appy offers an original interpretation of the war.
Contents:
Part 1. Why are we in Vietnam? -- Saving Vietnam -- Aggression -- Paper tigers -- Vietnam, Inc. -- Part 2. America at war -- Our boys -- The American way of war -- The war at home -- Part 3. What have we become? -- Victim nation -- "The pride is back" -- No more Vietnams -- Who we are.
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence.
National characteristics, American.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence.
National characteristics, American.
Target Audience: 1220L
ISBN:
9780670025398
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War Vietnam App | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY War Vietnam App | Edgewood | Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY War Vietnam App | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-384) and index.