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Until the Last Man Comes Home : POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War /
Allen analyzes the effects that activism by POW and MIA families had on U.S. politics before and after the Vietnam War's official end. He argues that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer tie...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The politics of loss
- Go public : the construction of loss
- For us the war still goes on : the limits of homecoming
- As it has in the past : a short history of oblivion
- Fullest possible accounting : the persistence of the past
- The wilderness years : life after death
- Highest national priority : resurrection and retribution
- Not to close the door, but to open it : the ambiguity of recovery
- Conclusion: This thing has consumed American politics for years.