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Book SynopsisBy examining those works, this book provides readers with a fascinating resource that explores America's ongoing struggle to assess the war and its legacies.
This encyclopedia includes 44 essays, each providing detailed information on an important film, song, or literary work about Vietnam.
Table of ContentsAdvisory Board Preface After Our War: Conscientious Objectors and Other Draft Resisters Apocalypse Now: The Vietnam War as Hallucinatory Experience Armies of the Night: The March on the Pentagon "Ballad of the Green Berets": U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam The Best and the Brightest: Policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans: African-Americans and Vietnam "Born in the U.S.A.": Returning Home from the War Born on the Fourth of July: Disabled Veterans in America A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Military Advisor John Vann and His Experiences in Vietnam Casualties of War: Atrocities in Vietnam Coming Home: Antiwar Vietnam Veterans The Deer Hunter: The Fall of Saigon Dispatches: Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive Fields of Fire: GI View of the Antiwar Movement Fire in the Lake: Impact of the War on Vietnamese Society "Fortunate Son": Vietnam as a Working-Class War Friendly Fire: "Friendly Fire" Casualties and Stateside Grief Full Metal Jacket: Lessons of Basic Training Go Tell the Spartans: U.S. Advisory Effort in Vietnam Going After Cacciato: Desertion during the Vietnam War The Green Berets: U.S. Media Coverage of the War The Hanoi Hilton: American POWs Hearts and Minds: American Apathy after the U.S. Withdrawal Home Before Morning: American Nurses in Vietnam In Country: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial In Pharaoh's Army: "Survivor's Guilt" In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam: Robert McNamara and the War The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge Takeover of Cambodia "Masters of War": The Military-Industrial Complex Meditations in Green: Drug Abuse in Vietnam "Ohio": The Kent State Shootings "Okie from Muskogee": Anthems of the "Silent Majority" Paco's Story: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Vietnam Veterans Platoon: Decline in U.S. Military Performance in Vietnam: Causes and Consequences The Quiet American: American Intervention in the French-Viet Minh War Rambo: First Blood, Part II: The Vietnam War and American Self-Image in the 1980s The Real War: American Military Strategy and Its Toll on Vietnam's Land and People A Rumor of War: "Americanization" of the War Song of Napalm: Vietnam Veteran Poetry Sticks and Bones: Postwar Reintegration into Family Networks The Things They Carried: The War in Quang Ngai Province The 13th Valley: "Humping the Boonies": Vietnam's Terrain and Climate "We Gotta Get Out of This Place": Rock and Roll Soundtrack to the War Winners and Losers: Women Correspondents in Vietnam Other Notable Works About the Vietnam War: Fictional Films, Documentary Films, Songs, Fiction, Nonfiction (Memoirs and Oral Narratives), Poetry, Plays Index
