The Vietnam War and American Culture

New York, New York, USA: Columbia University Press, 1992. BH5 - An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. This is a title in the publisher's Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms. A collection of material that examines both how American culture has tried to rewrite the history of the Vietnam War as well as reinterpreting a number of established myths about "American character" and life. The contributions include ""The Vietnam War and American Memory" by Rick Berg and John Carlos Rowe, "Visions of Righteousness" by Noam Chomsky, "Revisionist Vietnam History" by Stephen Vlastos, "Missing in Action: Women Warriors in Vietnam" by Carol Lynn Mithers, "Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films from World War II and Vietnam" by Claudia Springer, "Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology" by Rick Berg, "Eyewitness: Documentary Styles in the American Representations of Vietnam" by John Carlos Rowe, "Remembering Vietnam" by MIchael Clark, "Tattoos, Scars, Diaries, and Writing Masculinity" by Susan Jeffords, "The Vietnam War and American Music" by David Jones," and Poetry by W. D. Ehrhart. Notes on contributors, indexed, 275p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.