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Legacy: The Vietnam War in the American Imagination / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0807054011
ISBN-13:: 9780807054017
Pub. Date:: 02/29/1992
Publisher:: Beacon Press

ISBN-10:: 0807054011
ISBN-13:: 9780807054017
Pub. Date:: 02/29/1992
Publisher:: Beacon Press

Legacy: The Vietnam War in the American Imagination / Edition 1

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"Fourteen essays documenting the Vietnam War's impact and continuing influence on American life, particularly on cinema, literature, the black community, and the combat veteran." --Booklist

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ISBN-13:	9780807054017
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	02/29/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

	Preface
Part 1	The Importance of Remembering
1.	The Importance of Remembering: The Vietnam Legacy's Challenge to American Democracy	3
2.	America's War in Victnam: The End of Exceptionalism?	9
3.	Promise and Paradox: The 1960s and American Optimism	30
Part 2	Going to War: The Human Legacy
4.	The Vietnam-Era Draft: Who Went, Who Didn't, and Why It Matters	57
5.	The Vietnam Combat Experience: The Human Legacy	80
6.	Talkin' the Vietnam Blues: Vietnam Oral History and Our Popular Memory of War	104
Part 3	The Recreation of Vietnam--and America
7.	Vietnam and the Press	125
8.	The Recreation of Vietnam: The War in American Fiction, Poetry, and Drama	157
9.	The Vietnam War Movie	186
Part 4	Facing The Future
10.	Blacks and the Vietnam War	209
11.	The Day They Buried Traditional Womanhood: Women and the Vietnam Experience	233
12.	Indochinese Refugees: A Challenge to America's Memory of Vietnam	262
13.	Counterculture and Over-the-Counter Culture: The 1960s and the Legacy of Protest	280
14.	Vietnam, Ideology, and Domestic Politics	303
	Notes on the Contributors

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Editorial Reviews

The focus of this collection of 14 essays by scholars of various academic disciplines is on how the Vietnam War affected different aspects of American life. Its strengths include the breadth of its coverage, its discussion of the war's relationship with feminism, and its examination of the war's impact on ideology and politics. Its deficiencies include some factual errors, as well as problems of methodology and logic. An example of the former is the statement that ``Eugene McCarthy nearly beat Ed Muskie in the 1968 New Hampshire primary . . . .'' It was Lyndon Johnson whom McCarthy almost beat. The second problem is illustrated by the attempt to examine the impact of the war on blacks through comparisons of black and white veterans. The more relevant comparisons would be between black veterans and black nonveterans. Still, recommended for university libraries.-- Thomas H. Ferrell, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette

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Eleven essays lay the historical groundwork for the war; address the experience of veterans; explore how the war was mediated to the American public through film, fiction, political protest, and the news media; and look at how changes wrought by the war have shaped the nation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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