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The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration?
John Marciano
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Paperback. In 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years - through November 11, 2025 - commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, "more than 58,000 patriots," who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
In 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years - through November 11, 2025 - commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, more than 58,000 patriots, who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese - soldiers, parents, grandparents, children - also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated. And U.S. history barely stops to record the millions of Vietnamese who lived on after being displaced, tortured, maimed, raped, or born with birth defects, the result of devastating chemicals wreaked ... Read more
In 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years - through November 11, 2025 - commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, more than 58,000 patriots, who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese - soldiers, parents, grandparents, children - also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated. And U.S. history barely stops to record the millions of Vietnamese who lived on after being displaced, tortured, maimed, raped, or born with birth defects, the result of devastating chemicals wreaked ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781583675854
SKU
V9781583675854
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About John Marciano
John Marciano, Professor Emeritus at SUNY Cortland, has been an antiwar and social justice activist, author, scholar, teacher, and trade unionist. He is the author (with William L. Griffen) of Lessons of the Vietnam War (1984); and Civic Illiteracy and Education: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of American Youth (1997).
Reviews for The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration?
For many years, I've been using John Marciano and William Griffen's venerable 1979 Teaching the Vietnam War in my high school course called The U.S. & Vietnam. Now Marciano has written a newer history of the war that provides analysis and perspective on how the war ought to be remembered - and how it is being misremembered and misused. I ... Read more