American Reckoning

✍ Scribed by Christian G. Appy

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Group US 2015
• Year: 2016;2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 398 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1322721017

✦ Synopsis

The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insights into Vietnam's place in America's self-image

How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy, author of the widely praised oral history of the Vietnam War Patriots , now examines the relationship between the war's realities and myths and its impact on our national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy.

Drawing on a vast variety of sources from movies, songs, and novels to official documents, media coverage, and contemporary commentary, Appy offers an original interpretation of the war and its far-reaching consequences. Authoritative, insightful, sometimes surprising, and controversial, American Reckoning is a fascinating mix of political and cultural reporting that offers a completely fresh account of the meaning of the Vietnam War.