The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling

The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling
ISBN-10
0520204336
ISBN-13
9780520204331
Category
History
Pages
339
Language
English
Published
1996-11
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Milton J. Bates

Description

"Previous scholarship has established that American storytellers turned Vietnam into a landscape of American myth. Bates's lucid and judicious study . . . is a valuable addition to the conversation regarding the legacy of Vietnam."—John Hellmann, author of American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam "An absolutely stunning achievement. Milton Bates presents an incisively accurate analysis of the attitudes that shaped and controlled Americans' perceptions during the 1960s and '70s. He fuses literary analysis with historical scholarship to offer a comprehensive study of American thought and writing before, during, and after the war years. This is a book to be read carefully—and savored."—John Clark Pratt, author of The Laotian Fragments

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