The Vietnam War, which dominated American life during the 1960s, helped to create, radicalize, and alter social and political life in the US.

In this concise and lively volume, award-winning author Robert Buzzanco examines the role America played in the Vietnam War and demonstrates how the consequence

Essays discuss America's strategy during the Vietnam War, what it was like to fight there, the role of the press, the antiwar movement, and American guilt over

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our un

For American children raised exclusively in wartime—that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia—and the