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9781577180944

Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9781577180944

  • ISBN10:

    1577180941

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-11-11
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

The Vietnam War, which dominated American life during the 1960s, helped to create, radicalize, and alter social and political life in the US.

Author Biography

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
Introduction: Intersection: The Vietnam War and the Social and Political Movements of the 1960s
The Vietnam War
Containment, Liberalism, and Vietnam: Background to the American War
Why (Not) Vietnam? The Vietnamese, the French, and the Americans to 1960
Destroying the Country to Save It: The American War on Vietnam, 1960-1968
The Empire Strikes Back: The Vietnam War from 1968 to 1975
The Movements of the 1960s
Hope and Anguish: Background to the 1960s
Love Me, I'm a Liberal: Vietnam and the Politics of the 1960s
The Wars at Home: Civil Rights and Women's Liberation
One, Two, Three,Four, What are We Fightin' For? The War and American Culture
At War with Vietnam . . . Still: The Impact and Legacy of the War and the 1960s
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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