Backfire: A History Of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam And Made Us Fight The Way We Did; Author: Baritz, Loren; Author: Bartiz; Paperback

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Backfire: A History Of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam And Made Us Fight The Way We Did

Author: Baritz, Loren; Author: Bartiz
Paperback
416 pages
Published: July 1998
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801859530

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.Examines the myths of American culture that led it into Vietnam. Baritz exposes America's national illusions - that Americans are morally supreme, idealistic, invincible - and reveals how Vietnam changed today's American culture.

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