American reckoning : the Vietnam War and our national identity / Christian G. Appy.
Title:
American reckoning : the Vietnam War and our national identity / Christian G. Appy.
ISBN:
9780670025398
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Viking, 2015.
Physical Description:
xix, 396 pages ; 24 cm
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? Appy 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.
Audience:
1220L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn881888124
Availability:
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