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Backfire A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did Hardcover - 1985
by Baritz, Loren
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In 1972, while worshiping in a temple near an American air base, Colonel Chuc sank into a trance and received a battle plan and a magical sword from the spirit of the Vietnamese general who defeated Kublai Khan's Mongols seven hundred years earlier.
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- Title Backfire A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
- Author Baritz, Loren
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- Pages 393
- Publisher William Morrow & Co, New York
- Date March 1985
- ISBN 9780688041854
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New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1985. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. Stephen Long (Author photograph). 393, [3] pages. Notes. Index. The DJ has wear, soiling and edge tears/chips. Explores how reactions to U.S. involvement in Vietnam changed the way Americans think about their country, its role in the world, and the veterans of the war and shaped subsequent political structure. Loren Baritz has served as chairman of the Department of History at the University of Rochester, provost and acting chancellor at the State University of New York, and provost at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of The Servants of Power, City on a Hill, and The Culture of the Twenties. In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our faith in a technology that…
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