Spitting Image Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam

Name: Spitting Image Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780814751473

ISBN-10: 0814751474

ISBN-13: 9780814751473

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jerry Lembcke

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well-argued and documentedBerkshire Eagle "The image is ingrained: A Vietnam veteran, arriving home from the war, gets off a plane only to be greeted by an angry mob of antiwar protesters yelling, 'Murderer!' and 'Baby killer!' Then out of the crowd comes someone who spits in the veteran's face. The only problem, according to Jerry Lembcke, is that no such incident ever has been documented. It is instead, says Lembcke,a kind of urban myth that reflects our lingering national confusion over the war." --Los Angeles Times "The myth of the spat-upon veteran is not only bad history, but it has beeninstrumental in selling the American public on bad policy." --Maurice Isserman, Chicago Tribune…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 217
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English