Description
Book SynopsisHe reveals how Vietnam changed American culture today, from the successes and failures of the Washington bureaucracy to the destruction of the traditional military code of honor.
Trade ReviewBaritz's emphasis on the underlying assumptions that motivated American policy makers and the vigor and unconcealed emotion with which he writes give these pages an impact they would not otherwise have... It reminds us with eloquence, power and passion that war is a form of intercourse with other peoples that unveils the deepest assumptions that a nation makes about itself and its relationship to the outside world. Los Angeles Times
Table of ContentsPreface, 1998
Preface
Part I: Tinder: The Myths we Take to War
Chapter 1. God's Country and American Know-How
Part II: Fire: Decisions That Made the War
Chapter 2. The Chain to Vietnam
Chapter 3. The Invention of South Vietnam
Chapter 4. War by the Numbers
Chapter 5. The Politics of Ego
Part III: Backfire: Bureaucracy at War
Chapter 6. Enabling Ignorance
Chapter 7. The Warriors
Chapter 8. The American Lullaby
Notes
Index
