American Reckoning
American Reckoning

Author: Christian G. Appy

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0143128345

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How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy examines the war's realities and myths and its lasting impact on our national self-perception. Drawing on a vast variety of sources that range from movies, songs, and novels to official documents, media coverage, and contemporary commentary, Appy offers an original interpretation of the war and its far-reaching consequences for both our popular culture and our foreign policy.

Melvin Laird and the Foundation of the Post-Vietnam Military, 1969-1973
Melvin Laird and the Foundation of the Post-Vietnam Military, 1969-1973

Author: Richard A. Hunt

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780160927577

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"[E]xamines the former Congressman Melvin Laird's efforts to reconstitute the Department of Defense during the last years of the Vietnam war... Laird acted to mitigate the adverse effects of the Vietnam War on the department and to prepare the nation's armed forces for the future. Foremost was the transition from a conscripted military to an all-volunteer force, a fundamental policy shift that ended an unpopular and inequitable draft system."--from jacket.

The Unraveling of America
The Unraveling of America

Author: Allen J. Matusow

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 0820334057

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In a book that William E. Leuchtenburg, writing in the Atlantic, called “a work of considerable power,” Allen Matusow documents the rise and fall of 1960s liberalism. He offers deft treatments of the major topics—anticommunism, civil rights, Great Society programs, the counterculture—making the most, throughout, of his subject’s tremendous narrative potential. Matusow’s preface to the new edition explains the sometimes critical tone of his study. The Unraveling of America, he says, “was intended as a cautionary tale for liberals in the hope that when their hour struck again, they might perhaps be fortified against past error. Now that they have another chance, a look back at the 1960s might serve them well.”