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Backfire A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did Paperback - 1998
by Baritz, Loren
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In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, historian 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.
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- Title Backfire A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
- Author Baritz, Loren
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
- Date June 3, 1998
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 45795347
- ISBN 9780801859533 / 0801859530
- Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.14 x 0.99 in (23.01 x 15.60 x 2.51 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97051947
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.704
First line
In 1972, while worshiping in a temple near an American air base, Colonel Chuc sank into a trance and received a battle plan and a magical sword from the spirit of the Vietnamese general who defeated Kublai Khan's Mongols seven hundred years earlier.
From the rear cover
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.