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Author : Bill Kurtis
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780528810053
Author : Bill Kurtis
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780528810053
Author : Bill Kurtis
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Wilbur Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1351476882
Veterans of all wars face a demanding task in readjusting to civilian life. Vietnam veterans have borne an additional burden, having returned from a controversial war that ended in defeat for the United States and South Vietnam. To address this situation, leaders among the Vietnam veterans and their allies formed organizations of their own to articulate their problems and extract concessions from a reluctant Congress, Federal agencies, and courts.Scott, a former infantry platoon leader in Vietnam, describes the major social movements among his fellow veterans during the period of 196 to 1990 in a lively narrative, combining personal interviews with documentary and press records. Included in the book are the 'sociological stories' of protests against the war in Operations RAW and Dewey Canyon III: the successful effort to place post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Edition (DSM-III), of the American Psychiatric Association; the building of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., despite fierce opposition; and the long-running controversy over the herbicide Agent Orange. In the last chapter the author details the sociological thinking that informs his stories, and develops the implications for understanding social movements in general and veterans' issues in particular.
Author : Joe Garner
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1570719748
An illustrated book and two audio CDs provide actual news broadcasts and background information for 44 events in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Military art and science
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Author : Wilbur J. Scott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806135977
War is hell, and the return to civilian life afterwards can be a minefield as well, especially for veterans of a “bad war.” Soldiers coming home from Vietnam faced unique challenges as veterans of a controversial war whose divisiveness permeated every step of the re-entry and readjustment process. In his balanced and highly readable account, Vietnam Veterans since the War, sociologist Wilbur J. Scott tells the story of how the veterans and their allies organized to articulate their concerns and to win concessions from a reluctant Congress, federal agencies, and courts. Scott draws on published records, hours of personal interviews with veterans, and his experience as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam to explore the major social movements among his fellow veterans in the crucial years from 1967 to 1990, including the antiwar movement, the successful effort to win recognition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by the American Psychiatric Association, the establishment of veterans’ outreach centers, the controversy over the defoliant Agent Orange and its long-term effects, and the struggle to create the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. His new afterword brings the story up to date and demonstrates that while the United States’ involvement in Vietnam continues to be controversial, many of the tensions engendered by the war have been overcome.
Author : Jay Stanley, John D. Blair
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release :
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781412819299
This is the first compendium on sociological research on health and the armed forces. The core reality is that both health care and the military reflect social systems in transition. In essence, Challenges in Military Health Care is about the intersection of two institutions in flux.
Author : Bill Kurtis
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786734035
Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong. There can be no real justice in America until it is abolished. In The Death Penalty on Trial, Kurtis takes readers on his most remarkable investigative journey yet. Together, we revisit murder scenes, study the evidence, and explore the tactical decisions made before and during trials that send innocent people to death row. We examine the eight main reasons why the wrong people are condemned to death, including overzealous and dishonest prosecutors, corrupt policemen, unreliable witnesses and expert witnesses, incompetent defense attorneys, bias judges, and jailhouse informants. We see why the new jewel of forensic science, DNA, is revealing more than innocence and guilt, opening a window into the criminal justice system that could touch off a revolution of reform. Ultimately we come to a remarkable conclusion: The possibility for error in our justice system is simply too great to allow the death penalty to stand as our ultimate punishment.
Author : Edward Bliss, Jr.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231521932
-- Walter Cronkite
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Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :