Vietnam and other American fantasies
By: H. Bruce Franklin.
Series: Culture, politics, and the cold war.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amherst, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Public opinion -- United States.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Influence.; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
Description: "This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the causes, meaning, and continuing significance of the American war in Vietnam. It is a synthesis of H. Bruce Franklin's decades of engagement with that conflict - a fusion of critical analysis, meticulous scholarship, and moral insight that reveals crucial truths about the war while exposing the many fantasies about Vietnam that permeate American culture and politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars 5; title: 2 Plausibility of Denial 25; title: 3 The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget 47; title: 4 Burning Illusions: The Napalm Campaign 71; title: 5 1968; or, Bringing the War Home 89; title: 6 The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars;; title: or, the Perils of Western Civilization xII; title: 7 Star Trek and Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome 13I; title: 8 The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy I5I; title: 9 Missing in Action in the Twenty-first Century 73; title: Notes 203; title: Index 235.