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American Reckoning

The Vietnam War and Our National Identity

ISBN-13: 9780670025398

Author(s): Christian B. Appy

Subjects: HB, NH

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Viking Press USA

Publication Date: 19-03-2015

Format: Hardback

Availability: Temporary unavailable

£24.99
American Reckoning

About the book

How did the Vietnam War change the way Americans think of themselves 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 the US's national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture and postwar foreign policy. Drawing on a vast variety of sources from movies, songs and novels to official documents, media coverage and contemporary commentary, Appy offers an original interpretation of the war.