Backfire : a history of how American culture led us into Vietnam and made us fight the way we did / Loren Baritz.
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TextPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 393 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801859530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 959.7043373 21 B.L.B
- DS558 .B37 1998
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Originally published: New York : W. Morrow, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-379) and index.
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
He 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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