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The Vietnam War in American childhood /
For American children raised exclusively in wartime -- that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia -- and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience. Walter Cronkite was the voice of the conflict and...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Children, youth + war.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- A sort of nebulous sad thing happening forever and ever : childhood socialization to the Vietnam War
- Why couldn't I fight in a nice, simpler war? : comic books and Mad magazine
- Who bombed Santa's workshop? : militarizing play with commercial war toys
- One of the most agonizing years of my life : knowing someone in Vietnam
- Mom tried to make it for us like he wasn't even gone : father separation and reunion
- God bless dad wherever you are : POW/MIA
- How come the flags around town aren't flying at half-mast? : Gold Star children
- Yes, I am My Lai, but My Lai is better than Viet Cong! : Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians