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Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life
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Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life Paperback - 1999

by Buzzanco, Robert

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  • Title Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life
  • Author Buzzanco, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-11-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP10577513
  • ISBN 9781577180944 / 1577180941
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.53 x 5.45 x 0.91 in (21.67 x 13.84 x 2.31 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-45677
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

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First line

On the third night of Tet, the Vietnamese lunar new year, in 1788, the Emperor Quang Trung, leader of the Tay Son movement, drove on Hanoi with his elephant brigade.

From the rear cover

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 of American defeat. Part Two focuses on the major political and social movements of the 1960s: liberalism, civil rights, women's liberation, student activist movements protesting the war, and other youth culture movements. The book demonstrates how domestic mobilization against the war changed US political and social life and these changes gave rise, in turn, to other movements and consequent changes of great significance to American society.

The Vietnam War, which dominated American life during the 1960s, helped to create, radicalize, and alter social and political life in the US. In Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life Robert Buzzanco generates fresh and intriguing insights that will inspire both students and general readers as they approach this dramatically divisive, volatile, and ultimately crucial period of American history.

About the author

Robert Buzzanco is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), which received the Stuart L. Bernath Prize for best book in diplomatic history in 1996. In 1998 he was named as outstanding young scholar in his field by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

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