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No single event since World War II has marked this country's
foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in
Vietnam. Vietnam and America is a complete history of the war, as
documented in essays by leading experts and in original source
material. With generous selections from the documentary records,
the book dispels distortions and illuminates in depth the many
facets of the war, from Vietnam's history before the war, to
Washington's insider policy making, to troop perspectives, to the
impact back on the home front. In essays introducing each major
stage of the war, the editors elucidate the issues, foreign policy
choices, and consequences of U.S. involvement. Substantial
headnotes put each document in historical perspective. This
comprehensive anthology is an invaluable reference for anyone who
wants to understand the Vietnam War.
This selection of unusual stories is by important American
writers-Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Bellamy and Twain-and by less
well-known tellers such as Ambrose Bierce, S. Weir Mitchell and
Fitz-James O'Brien, challenges the commonly held belief that
science fiction is a twentieth century phenomenon, or that it began
with Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. Here are tales of marvellous
inventions, automata, biological and psychological experiments,
utopias, extra-sensory perception and time and space travel. Many
of them have been out of print since before World War I, but they
remain high in intrinsic interest of the general reader and for the
specialist. The accompanying critical essays explore the
relationships between science fiction and other financial modes,
and illuminate the nature of the bonds between science and society
and fantasies and social aspirations. Professor Franklin also
offers an original, theoretical definition of science fiction. This
book comes as a revelation. One of the best-edited anthologies I
have ever encountered...Mr. Franklin's critical introductions,
containing much valuable information about many works not included
in this book, are as interesting as the stories he prints.
Peace Not Terror includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Dave
Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, William Sloane Coffin, H. Bruce
Franklin, David Cortright, David Harris, and others, including
veterans of the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Many of these writers
contributed to her earlier book, Against the Vietnam War: Writings
By Activists (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). The argument of the
book is that a peaceful solution to the problems caused by the
attacks of September 11, 2007 can be found. The hope is that there
are so many people who are willing to contribute to a book such as
this one, and who are doing such wonderful work. They span the
generations. The peace demonstrations all over the world before the
war against Iraq testify to people's wishes, people's feelings.
This is the hope for the future.
Peace Not Terror includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Dave
Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, William Sloane Coffin, H. Bruce
Franklin, David Cortright, David Harris, and others, including
veterans of the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Many of these writers
contributed to her earlier book, Against the Vietnam War: Writings
By Activists (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). The argument of the
book is that a peaceful solution to the problems caused by the
attacks of September 11, 2007 can be found. The hope is that there
are so many people who are willing to contribute to a book such as
this one, and who are doing such wonderful work. They span the
generations. The peace demonstrations all over the world before the
war against Iraq testify to people's wishes, people's feelings.
This is the hope for the future.
In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature
Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.D. Ehrhart: "As
a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures
in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the
war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's
abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam-Perkasie is grim,
comical, disturbing, and accurate. The presentation is
novelistic-truly, a "page-turner"-but the events are all real, the
atmosphere intensely evocative.
This work is a cultural history of the Vietnam War and its
continuing impact upon contemporary American society. The author
presents an investigation of how myths about the war evolved and
why people depend on them to answer the confusing questions that
have become the legacy of the war. Memories change and reconstruct
the past, and in this text, the author argues that the American
memory of Vietnam has left fact and experience behind so that what
remains is myth and denial.
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