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Vietnam and Other American Fantasies

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Univ of Massachusetts Press, Nov 1, 2001 - History - 272 pages
A provocative reassessment of the Vietnam War considers its cultural and political legacies, identifying misconceptions surrounding the conflict while calling for a more accurate awareness of factual events and the war's ongoing impact. Reprint.
  

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User Review  - Sarah - Goodreads

although i read this book appox. 6 years ago, i remember it being the first text that really clarified things for me about the US invasion of Vietnam. what i felt was extremely valuable was that it ... Read full review

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Interesting... but, man, this guy can rant! Read full review

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Contents

on Differing Perceptions of Reality
1
From Realism to Virtual Reality IMAGES OF AMERICAS WARS
5
Plausibility of Denial
25
The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget
47
Burning Illusions THE NAPALM CAMPAIGN
71
1968 or Bringing the War Home
89
The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars or the Perils of Western Civilization
111
Star Trek and Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome
131
The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy
151
Missing in Action in the Twentyfirst Century
173
NOTES
203
INDEX
235
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Vietnam & Other American Fantasies
Now to unpack the lies great and small comes Vietnam and Other American Fantasies an excellent book, full both serious politics and surreal cultural trivia, ...
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Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
H. Bruce Franklin, description of MIA OR MYTHMAKING IN AMERICA
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Green Left - H. Bruce Franklin: from loyal liberal to radical ...
19 September 2001. Bruce Franklin, Vietnam and Other American Fantasies, University of Massachusetts Press, BILL NEVINS, Vietnam War, culture, history"> ...
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Race & Class
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies is essential reading, a tract for. the times we live in. Franklin was radicalised by the Vietnam war, transformed from ...
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War: THE VETERAN: Challenging Pop ...
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies H. Bruce Franklin University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, 2000. After all these years since the American War in ...
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Importacao de Publicacoes Tecnicas sob Demanda - Livros Revista Normas - VIETNAM AND OTHER AMERICAN FANTASIES Written by a cultural historian, ...
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H. Bruce Franklin
H. Bruce Franklin, the author or editor of eighteen books, including the just-published Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Massachusetts), ...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK PECH Peace & Change 0149-0508 ...
Moser's interpretation is reinforced in Franklin's “The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget,” Franklin, Vietnam and Other American Fantasies , 47–70. ...
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Introduction
H. Bruce Franklin, Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Amherst: Uni-. versity of Massachusetts Press, 2000), 2. 22. Howard Zinn, “The Politics of History ...
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ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: America, Viet Nam and the Poetics ...
ABSTRACT. Title of Dissertation:. America, Viet Nam and the Poetics of Guilt. Matthew B. Hill, Ph.D., 2004. Dissertation Directed By: Professor David Wyatt, ...
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About the author (2001)

About the Author
H. Bruce Franklin, author or editor of fifteen books on culture and history, is The John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University.

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