Backfire

A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our faith in a technology that supposedly makes us invincible. He also reveals how Vietnam changed American culture today, from the successes and failures of the Washington bureaucracy to the destruction of the traditional military code of honor.

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Utgivningsdatum1998-08-25
Mått152 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor400
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801859533

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Preface, 1998PrefacePart I: Tinder: The Myths we Take to WarChapter 1. God's Country and American Know-HowPart II: Fire: Decisions That Made the WarChapter 2. The Chain to VietnamChapter 3. The Invention of South VietnamChapter 4. War by the NumbersChapter 5. The Politics of EgoPart III: Backfire: Bureaucracy at WarChapter 6. Enabling IgnoranceChapter 7. The WarriorsChapter 8. The American LullabyNotes Index

Baritz's emphasis on the underlying assumptions that motivated American policy makers and the vigor and unconcealed emotion with which he writes give these pages an impact they would not otherwise have... It reminds us with eloquence, power and passion that war is a form of intercourse with other peoples that unveils the deepest assumptions that a nation makes about itself and its relationship to the outside world. Los Angeles Times