"Traditional intellectual history at its finest. . . . a
comfortable, logical, uncontroversial book that is likely to remain
a standard work for a long time."
"--H-Net"
Prior to the Vietnam war, American intellectual life rested
comfortably on shared assumptions and often common ideals.
Intellectuals largely supported the social and economic reforms of
the 1930s, the war against Hitler's Germany, and U.S. conduct
during the Cold War. By the early 1960s, a liberal intellectual
consensus existed.
The war in Southeast Asia shattered this fragile coalition,
which promptly dissolved into numerous camps, each of which
questioned American institutions, values, and ideals. Robert R.
Tomes sheds new light on the demise of Cold War liberalism and the
development of the New Left, and the steady growth of a
conservatism that used Vietnam, and anti-war sentiment, as a
rallying point. Importantly, Tomes provides new evidence that
neoconservatism retreated from internationalism due largely to
Vietnam, only to regroup later with substantially diminished goals
and expectations.
Covering vast archival terrain, Apocalypse Then stands as the
definitive account of the impact of the Vietnam war on American
intellectual life.
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