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_b.B37 1998
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100 1 _aBaritz, Loren,
_d1928-,
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245 1 0 _aBackfire :
_ba history of how American culture led us into Vietnam and made us fight the way we did /
_cLoren Baritz.
264 1 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c[1998]
264 4 _c©1998
300 _a393 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published: New York : W. Morrow, 1985.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [351]-379) and index.
505 0 _aPreface, 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
520 _aHe 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.
650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975
_zUnited States.
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651 0 _aUnited States
_xCivilization
_y1945-
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