American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
ISBN-13:
9780670025398
ISBN-10:
0670025399
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Christian G. Appy
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Viking
Format:
Hardcover
416 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Vietnam War
,
Military History
,
World History
,
Americas History
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780670025398
ISBN-10:
0670025399
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Christian G. Appy
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Viking
Format:
Hardcover
416 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Vietnam War
,
Military History
,
World History
,
Americas History
Summary
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (ISBN-13: 9780670025398 and ISBN-10: 0670025399), written by authors
Christian G. Appy, was published by Viking in 2015.
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Description
“Few people understand the centrality of the Vietnam War to our situation as much as Christian Appy."
—Ken Burns
The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insights into Vietnam’s place in America’s self-image.
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.
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 and its far-reaching consequences. Authoritative, insightful, sometimes surprising, and controversial, American Reckoning is a fascinating mix of political and cultural reporting that offers a completely fresh account of the meaning of the Vietnam War.
—Ken Burns
The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insights into Vietnam’s place in America’s self-image.
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.
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 and its far-reaching consequences. Authoritative, insightful, sometimes surprising, and controversial, American Reckoning is a fascinating mix of political and cultural reporting that offers a completely fresh account of the meaning of the Vietnam War.
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