Dealing with the wide range of issues facing the post-Vietnam history of the United States, this work examines: the ultimate meanings of the Vietnam War to America; the war's impact on America's national psyche, on US popular culture and academia; its residual effect with respect to veterans and emigres; "revisionist" historicism; needs to rectify some inaccurate myths surrounding the war and the Vietnam veterans; the postwar healing process in America; postwar attitudes to the Vietnamese people toward the war and the American people; the MIA issue; and the process of Washington-Hanoi rapprochement. The purpose of this book is not to refight the controversial Vietnam War, but to express a desire to heal America's psychic wounds.
- ISBN10 1859726658
- ISBN13 9781859726655
- Publish Date 1 July 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 May 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 94
- Language English