Legacies of Vietnam
Author : Arthur Egendorf
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Veterans
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Egendorf
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Veterans
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
ISBN :
Author : D. Michael Shafer
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 1992-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807054017
"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
Author : Fred A. Wilcox
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 160980340X
Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person accounts with original research, Vietnam War scholar Fred A. Wilcox examines long-term consequences for future generations, laying bare the ongoing monumental tragedy in Vietnam, and calls for the United States government to finally admit its role in chemical warfare in Vietnam. Wilcox also warns readers that unless we stop poisoning our air, food, and water supplies, the cancer epidemic in the United States and other countries will only worsen, and he urgently demands the chemical manufacturers of Agent Orange to compensate the victims of their greed and to stop using the Earth’s rivers, lakes, and oceans as toxic waste dumps. Vietnam has chosen August 10—the day that the US began spraying Agent Orange on Vietnam—as Agent Orange Day, to commemorate all its citizens who were affected by the deadly chemical. Scorched Earth will be released upon the third anniversary of this day, in honor of all those whose families have suffered, and continue to suffer, from this tragedy.
Author : Charles E. Neu
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : History
ISBN :
Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After Vietnam four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century. In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration, disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to "revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.
Author : Ellen Frey-Wouters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1000149684
A survey examines American attitudes toward the Vietnam War and the experiences and ideas that turned most people against the war.
Author : Arnold R. Isaacs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2000-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801863448
Isaacs talks to the veterans unable to forget the war no one wanted to talk about. He explores the class divisions deepened by a conflict in which the privileged avoided service that an earlier generation had embraced as a duty. And he shows how the "Vietnam Syndrome" continues to affect nearly every major U.S. foreign policy decision, from the Persion Gulf to Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti.
Author : Arthur Egendorf
Publisher :
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Veterans
ISBN :
Author : Richard Morris
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Not until the early 1980s did Americans collectively redirect their attention to Vietnam. Coincident with the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. came a return to emotions and issues that had been repressed since the end of the war. These are manifested, for example, by the growing attention paid to the war by the mass media, especially television and film. Each essay in this volume in some way examines how the past is organized and construed to give shape and meaning to the present and the future. Each speaks to consequences of how Vietnam is and is not remembered. Each also reports that the Vietnam War did not end with the cessation of combat. Diverse forms of symbolic expressions- speeches and argument, prose and poetry, films, TV programs, memorials, private conversations- all strive to give shape and significance to the war.
Author : Charles E. Neu
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801863325
Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After Vietnam four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century. In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration, disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to "revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.