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Forever Vietnam : how a divisive war changed American public memory /
"Four decades after its end, the American war in Vietnam still haunts the nation's collective memory. Its lessons, real and imagined, continue to shape government policies and military strategies, while the divisions it spawned infect domestic politics and fuel the so-called culture wars....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Culture, politics, and the Cold War.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "I know what it's like"
- "How far is Andersonville from Vietnam?": Vietnam revisionism and Andersonville National Historic Site
- "We veterans of mass murder and stupidity": older veterans' PTSD and the narration of combat in post-Vietnam memoirs of the Second World War
- "We see a lot of parallels between the men at the Alamo and ourselves": recovering from Vietnam at the Alamo
- "We should have said no": Vietnam's legacy, the remembrance of Somalia, and debates over humanitarian intervention in the 1990s
- "It's almost like the Vietnam wall": the legacy of Vietnam and remembrance of Flight 93
- "The lessons of history": Vietnam's legacy during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Afterword: "the task of telling your story continues."