Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life by Robert Buzzanco (University of Houston)
The Vietnam War, which dominated American life during the 1960s, helped to create, radicalize, and alter social and political life in the US.
Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life
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Presenting a history of the role America played in the Vietnam War, this text examines how the consequences of the war changed American culture and society. The major political and social movements of the 1960s - liberalism, Civil Rights, and youth culture - are examined.
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The Indochina wars have cast a long shadow over world affairs. For the victims, they were a devastating catastrophe. Their legacy for the United States was substantial, interacting in complex ways with internal developments in American society. Buzzanco's study examines these themes with skill and insight, informed by outstanding scholarship and enriched by perceptive understanding. Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
About Robert Buzzanco (University of Houston)
Robert Buzzanco is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), which received the Stuart L. Bernath Prize for best book in diplomatic history in 1996. In 1998 he was named as outstanding young scholar in his field by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction: Intersection: The Vietnam War and the Social and Political Movements of the 1960s 1
Part I The Vietnam War
1 Containment, Liberalism, and Vietnam: Background to the American War 13
2 Why (Not) Vietnam? The Vietnamese, the French, and the Americans to 1960 22
3 Destroying the Country to Save It: The American War on Vietnam, 1960-1968 61
4 The Empire Strikes Back: The Vietnam War from 1968 to 1975 101
Part II The Movements of the 1960s
5 Many Deeds of War: Hope and Anguish in the 1960s 139
6 Love Me, I'm a Liberal: The Politics of 1960s and Vietnam 150
7 The Struggles at Home: Civil Rights and Women's Liberation 191
8 One, Two, Three, What Are We Fightin' For? Cultural Politics in the Vietnam Era 234
Notes 252
Bibliography 264
Index 270
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GOR004664977
9781577180944
1577180941
Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life by Robert Buzzanco (University of Houston)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19990110
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