[PDF.86ra] Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)

Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)

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 | #1148629 in Books |  2001-10-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.33 x.70 x6.18l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A cautionary tale for how history can be rewritten.|By Carol White|Now that polls show that a majority of young people think the US won the Vietnam War (actually, no, the NLF won and the US withdrew after the 1974 Paris peace treaty), it's useful for those who value truth more than comfort to see how it was done. The military right wing couldn't get over that fact that a small|From Publishers Weekly|"Human memory," Primo Levi once wrote, "is a marvelous but fallacious instrument." Memories change and reconstruct the past, and in this provocative study, Rutgers cultural historian Franklin argues that the American memory of Vietnam has

There is now fairly widespread acknowledgment that the Vietnam War shattered many of the traditional narratives central to formerly prevailing vision of the United States and its history. Some people regret this and seek to restore old narratives that they consider essential to a unifying national identity, but their mighty efforts are unlikely to put Humpty Dumpty together again. Others see this shattering as a liberation from dangerous illusions, a wake-up call that fo...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)   |  H. Bruce Franklin. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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