{"product_id":"mia-or-mythmaking-in-america-how-and-why-belief-in-five-pows-has-possessed-a-nation-9780813520018","title":"MIA Or Mythmaking in America How and Why Belief","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis paperback edition of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America adds major new material about Ross Perot's role, the 1991-1992 Senate investigation, and illegal operations authorized by Ronald Reagan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major critical study on one of the central public myths of our time. It uncovers the political sources and historical development of a national cult of grievance, whose persistence distorts our understanding of the Vietnam War and our responses to current issues in foreign affairs.... An important contribution.\" -- Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Wesleyan University\u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Franklin's meticulously researched book... casts strong light on the Indochina war's ghostly and ghastly afterlife.\" -- Todd Gitlin * The New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Finally, someone has put the Vietnam legacy of alleged MIA survival in its wider political and cultural setting.... A powerful confirmation of the cruelly irresponsible forces that are at work in our country at the highest levels of government.... A gripping account of subversion from above, a book that should be read by all Americans.\" -- Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law\u003cbr\u003e\"An important and compelling book.... Franklin raises and answers all of the hardest questions about an enduring piece of political mythology.\" * The Philadelphia Inquirer *\u003cbr\u003e\"Franklin's startling and meticulously researched account of the inner history of the POW\/MIA issue transforms our understanding of how the Vietnam War ended and how it continues. Every historian of the period... will need to read and contemplate its conclusions.\" -- Marilyn B. Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Preface to the Expanded and Updated Edition    \u003cbr\u003e Preface    \u003cbr\u003e Prisoners of Myth\u003cbr\u003e A National Religion?\u003cbr\u003e But Are There Live POWs?\u003cbr\u003e Prisoners of the War\u003cbr\u003e The Matrix of the POW\/MIA Issue\u003cbr\u003e The \"Go Public\" Campaign\u003cbr\u003e Enter VIVA and the Bracelets\u003cbr\u003e Four More Years of War for the POW\/MIAs\u003cbr\u003e Peace for the POWs\u003cbr\u003e Counting on Discrepancies\u003cbr\u003e The POWs in War and Peace\u003cbr\u003e The Missing of Peace\u003cbr\u003e War Remains\u003cbr\u003e VIVA and the National League of Families Continue the War\u003cbr\u003e The Pentagon's New Math\u003cbr\u003e The Case of the Disappearing POWs\u003cbr\u003e The Multiplication of the POWs\u003cbr\u003e What Did Happen to the Missing Men?\u003cbr\u003e Cambodia\u003cbr\u003e Laos\u003cbr\u003e Vietnam: Or What the Garwood Case Really Shows\u003cbr\u003e \"Live Sightings\"\u003cbr\u003e Why?\u003cbr\u003e Reparations and POWs\u003cbr\u003e Mythmaking in America\u003cbr\u003e Crucifixion and Resurrection\u003cbr\u003e Hollywood Heroes I: Bo Gritz and Ronald Reagan\u003cbr\u003e Hollywood Heroes II: Gene Hackman and Chuck Norris\u003cbr\u003e Hollywood Heroes III: Rambo\u003cbr\u003e The Plots Thicken\u003cbr\u003e Still Missing\u003cbr\u003e Recovery\u003cbr\u003e A Story of the Missing and the Missing Story\u003cbr\u003e \"The Last Chapter\"?\u003cbr\u003e \"POW\/MIA\"\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: From the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet-Nam, Signed in Paris, January 27, 1973\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: The Secret Nixon Letter\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405771809111,"sku":"9780813520018","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813520018.jpg?v=1730493558","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mia-or-mythmaking-in-america-how-and-why-belief-in-five-pows-has-possessed-a-nation-9780813520018","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}