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He 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.

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Baritz'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 Contents

Preface, 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

Backfire

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 25 August 1998
      ISBN-13 9780801859533
      978-0801859533
      ISBN-10 0801859530
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      He 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 Review
      Baritz'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 Contents

      Preface, 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

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