Invisible enemies
Subtitle: the American war on Vietnam, 1975-2000
By: Edwin A. Martini.
Series: Culture, politics, and the Cold War
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781558496095; 9781558496088
Subjects: Public opinion -- United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence; United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam; Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-; United States -- Relations -- Vietnam; Vietnam -- Relations -- United States; Vietnam -- Foreign public opinion, American
Description: Drawing on a range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, this text shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam 'by other means' for another 25 years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A continuation of war by other means : the origins of the American war on Vietnam, 1975-1977; title: Constructing mutual destruction : the cultural logic of normalization, 1977-1979; title: Bleeding Vietnam : the United States and the third Indochina war; title: "I am reality" : redrawing the terms of battle, 1985-1989; title: Peace is at hand : roadmaps, roadblocks, and one-way streets, 1990-1995; title: Invisible enemies : searching for Vietnam at the wall(s); title: Epilogue: The uneasy peace and the flags that still fly.