{"product_id":"backfire-9780801859533","title":"Backfire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaritz'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface, 1998\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Tinder: The Myths we Take to War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. God's Country and American Know-How\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Fire: Decisions That Made the War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Chain to Vietnam\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Invention of South Vietnam\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. War by the Numbers\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Politics of Ego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Backfire: Bureaucracy at War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Enabling Ignorance\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Warriors\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The American Lullaby\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405190013271,"sku":"9780801859533","price":31.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801859533.jpg?v=1730489047","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/backfire-9780801859533","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}