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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictHellman thoughtfully examines the significance of the values and symbols propagated in the memoirs, novels, and films dealing with Vietnam in the years 1955-80, and how these related to America's ... Read full review
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Fascinating stuff, if its what you're into. He really comes up with some good analyses.
Contents
An Angry Dream The Cold War Southeast Asia and the American Mythic Landscape | 3 |
The Return of the Frontier Hero National Purpose and the Legend of the Green Berets | 41 |
The Antiwar Movement and the Frontier | 71 |
THE JOURNEY BACK | 97 |
Good Sons The Soldiers Antimyth | 99 |
The Hero Seeks a Way Out | 139 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam |
| Author | John Hellmann |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0231515383, 9780231515382 |
| Length | 241 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) History / United States / General |
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