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_aBaritz, Loren, _d1928-, _918011 _eauthor |
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_aBackfire : _ba history of how American culture led us into Vietnam and made us fight the way we did / _cLoren Baritz. |
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_aBaltimore, Md. : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c[1998] |
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_a393 pages ; _c24 cm. |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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| 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. | ||
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_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _zUnited States. _918012 |
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_aUnited States _xCivilization _y1945- _918013 |
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