Now available in a completely revised and updated second edition, Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War is an award-winning historiography of one of the 20th century's seminal conflicts. Looks at many facets of Vietnam War, examining central arguments of scholars, journalists, …
"Assesses the lessons learned from this war, and how these lessons have affected American national security policy since"--
"Assesses the lessons learned from this war, and how these lessons have affected American national security policy since"--
"Assesses the lessons learned from this war, and how these lessons have affected American national security policy since"--
To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary of State Dean Rusk of Geo…
To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary of State Dean Rusk of Geo…
To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary of State Dean Rusk of Geo…
Lawrence offers readers a superb short account of this key moment in U.S. as well as world history, based on the latest European and American research and on newly opened archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam.
Introduction: 1969 and an American Mythos -- Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Regained : A Mythography of the Lost Frontier -- Vietnam, The Forever War, and the Shattering of American Myth -- Technological Triumph, Mythological Miasma : NASA, the Moon, and Transforming Mythos into L…
"The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman's The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problemat…