American reckoning : the Vietnam War and our national identity / Christian G. Appy.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Viking, 2015.Description: xix, 396 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780670025398 (hbk.)
- 959.704310973 APP
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Gulbanoo Premji Library, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru | VAM Collection | 4th Floor | 959.704310973 APP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | G45855 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-384) and index.
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.
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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