TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baritz,Loren
TI  - Backfire: a history of how American culture led us into Vietnam and made us fight the way we did 
SN  - 0801859530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - DS558 .B37 1998
U1  - 959.7043373 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Baltimore, Md.
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1945-
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -