Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life

Name: Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life
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ISBN: 9781577180944

ISBN-10: 1577180941

ISBN-13: 9781577180944

Edition: 1999

Authors: Robert Buzzanco

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In this concise and lively volume, award-winning author Robert Buzzanco examines the role America played in the Vietnam War and how the consequences of this involvement dramatically changed American politics, culture, and society at a period when the United States was most vulnerable.Divided into two sections, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life begins with a history of the emergence of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese nationalist movement and explains why the United States intervened in Vietnam despite pessimism over American military prospects there. Buzzanco then traces the repeated escalations of the war in the Johnson and Nixon years, and, finally, the causes and consequences…

Book details

List price: $55.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/11/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.60" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



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