The lessons and legacies of the Vietnam War /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hixson, Walter L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Garland Pub., 2000.
Series:United States and the Vietnam War ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • The economic crisis of 1968 and the waning of the "American century" / Robert M. Collins
  • "Peoples quite apart" : Americans, South Vietnamese, and the war in Vietnam / George C. Herring
  • The "Vietnam syndrome" and American foreign policy / George C. Herring
  • Historical memory and illusive victories : Vietnam and Central America / Thomas G. Paterson
  • The last war, the next war, and the new revisionists / Walter LaFeber
  • The post-Vietnam formula under siege : the imperial presidency and Central America / Kenneth E. Sharpe
  • Rhetoric, failure, and the presidency : the case of Vietnam / Kenneth S. Zagacki
  • The stab-in-the-back legend and the Vietnam War / Jeffrey P. Kimball
  • Once again - did the press lose Vietnam? / Charles Mohr
  • An analysis of television coverage of the Vietnam War / Oscar Patterson, III
  • "At the cannon's mouth" : the American press and the Vietnam War / Clarence Wyatt
  • The POW/MIA myth / H. Bruce Franklin
  • The myth of the troubled and scorned Vietnam veteran / Eric T. Dean, Jr.
  • Vietnam veterans and the Agent Orange controversy / James Jacobs and Dennis McNamara
  • Coming to terms with defeat : post-Vietnam America and the post-Civil War South / Gaines M. Foster
  • Vietnam reconsidered / Robert A. Divine
  • The unending debate : historians and the Vietnam War / Gary R. Hess
  • America and Vietnam : the debate continues / George C. Herring.