Backfire

A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did

von Loren Baritz

400 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften Populäre Kultur
• ISBN: 9780801859533
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.1998
• Größe: 230 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press