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American reckoningChristian G. Appy

American reckoning

2015396 pages
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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.

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  • Other · English · 2016
    Penguin Books · 396 pages · 9780143128342
  • Other · English · 2015
    Viking · 396 pages · 9780670025398
Vietnam War, 1961-1975American National characteristicsInfluenceUniversity of South AlabamaVietnamkriegNationalbewusstseinInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Vietnam war, 1961-1975, united states