American Myth And The Legacy Of Vietnam
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American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam
Author | : John Hellmann |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1989-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231515383 |
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American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam
The Spitting Image
Author | : Jerry Lembcke |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2000-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814751474 |
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How the startling image of an anti-war protested spitting on a uniformed veteran misrepresented the narrative of Vietnam War political debate One of the most resilient images of the Vietnam era is that of the anti-war protester — often a woman — spitting on the uniformed veteran just off the plane. The lingering potency of this icon was evident during the Gulf War, when war supporters invoked it to discredit their opposition. In this startling book, Jerry Lembcke demonstrates that not a single incident of this sort has been convincingly documented. Rather, the anti-war Left saw in veterans a natural ally, and the relationship between anti-war forces and most veterans was defined by mutual support. Indeed one soldier wrote angrily to Vice President Spiro Agnew that the only Americans who seemed concerned about the soldier's welfare were the anti-war activists. While the veterans were sometimes made to feel uncomfortable about their service, this sense of unease was, Lembcke argues, more often rooted in the political practices of the Right. Tracing a range of conflicts in the twentieth century, the book illustrates how regimes engaged in unpopular conflicts often vilify their domestic opponents for "stabbing the boys in the back." Concluding with an account of the powerful role played by Hollywood in cementing the myth of the betrayed veteran through such films as Coming Home, Taxi Driver, and Rambo, Jerry Lembcke's book stands as one of the most important, original, and controversial works of cultural history in recent years.
Vietnam Shadows
Author | : Arnold R. Isaacs |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000-04-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0801863449 |
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Isaacs talks to the veterans unable to forget the war no one wanted to talk about. He explores the class divisions deepened by a conflict in which the privileged avoided service that an earlier generation had embraced as a duty. And he shows how the "Vietnam Syndrome" continues to affect nearly every major U.S. foreign policy decision, from the Persion Gulf to Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti.
The Wars We Took to Vietnam
Author | : Milton J. Bates |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1996-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520204331 |
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"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
Legacy
Author | : D. Michael Shafer |
Publsiher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1992-02-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807054011 |
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"Fourteen essays documenting the Vietnam War's impact and continuing influence on American life, particularly on cinema, literature, the black community, and the combat veteran." --Booklist
The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam
Author | : Dale Walton |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136339875 |
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This book offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States conducted its military- political effort in Indochina.
The Legacy
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Author | : D. Michael Shafer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : OCLC:1066906824 |
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Hollywood s Imperial Wars
Author | : Armando Jose Prats |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2024-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806194448 |
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When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the heroic legacy that had passed from one generation to the next for more than two hundred years. How Hollywood helped create and instill the American myth of heroic continuity, and how films revised that myth after the Vietnam War, is what Armando José Prats explores in Hollywood’s Imperial Wars. The book offers a new way of understanding the cultural and historical significance of Vietnam in relation to Hollywood’s earlier representations of Americans at war, from the mythic heroism of a film like Sands of Iwo Jima to the rupture of that myth in films such as The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, and Platoon. As early as the mid-1940s, Prats suggests, fears aroused by the Cold War were stirring anxieties about sustaining the heroic myth—anxieties reflected in the insistent, aggressive patriotism in films of the period. In this context, Prats considers the immeasurable cultural importance of John Wayne, the cinematic apotheosis of wartime valor and righteousness, whose patriotism was nonetheless deeply compromised by his not having served in World War II. Prats reveals how historical and cultural anxieties emerge in well-known Vietnam movies, in which characters inspired by the heroes of the Second World War are denied the heroic legacy of their fathers. American war movies, in Prats’s analysis, were forever altered by the loss in Vietnam. Even movies like American Sniper that exalt war heroes are marked as much by the failure of the heroic tropes of old Hollywood war movies as by the tragic turn of actual historical events. Tracing what Prats calls the “anxiety of legacy” through the films of the World War II and post–Vietnam War periods, this book offers a new way of looking at both the Hollywood war movie and the profound cultural shifts it reflects and refracts.