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Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
Loren Baritz
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Description for Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
Paperback. He reveals how Vietnam changed American culture today, from the successes and failures of the Washington bureaucracy to the destruction of the traditional military code of honor. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBWQ; JFC; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 supposedly makes us invincible. He also reveals how Vietnam changed American culture today, from the successes and failures of the Washington bureaucracy to the destruction of the traditional military code of honor.
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 supposedly makes us invincible. He also reveals how Vietnam changed American culture today, from the successes and failures of the Washington bureaucracy to the destruction of the traditional military code of honor.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801859533
SKU
V9780801859533
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About Loren Baritz
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.
Reviews for Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
Baritz's emphasis on the underlying assumptions that motivated American policy makers and the vigor and unconcealed emotion with which he writes give these pages an impact they would not otherwise have... It reminds us with eloquence, power and passion that war is a form of intercourse with other peoples that unveils the deepest assumptions that a nation makes about itself ... Read more