American reckoning
Subtitle: the Vietnam War and our national identity
By: Christian G. Appy
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780670025398
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; American National characteristics; Influence
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-384) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why are we in Vietnam?; title: Saving Vietnam; title: Aggression; title: Paper tigers; title: Vietnam, Inc.; title: America at war.; title: Our boys; title: The American way of war; title: The war at home; title: What have we become?; title: Victim nation; title: "The pride is back"; title: No more Vietnams; title: Who we are.