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Author : Christian L. Arevian
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781419648458
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (484 download)
Download or read book A Conservative View of the Vietnam Era written by Christian L. Arevian and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Vietnam War
Author : Seth Offenbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429559410
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The Conservative Movement and the Vietnam War written by Seth Offenbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War was the central political issue of the 1960s and 1970s. This study by Seth Offenbach explains how the conflict shaped modern conservatism. The war caused disputes between the pro-war anti-communists right and libertarian conservatives who opposed the war. At the same time, Christian evangelicals supported the war and began forming alliances with the mainstream, pro-war right. This enabled the formation of the New Right movement which came to dominate U.S. politics at the end of the twentieth century. The Conservative Movement and the Vietnam War explains the right’s changes between Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
Author : Jean-Marie Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (898 download)
Download or read book "They Fought as Bravely as Any American Fighting Men" written by Jean-Marie Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historiography of the Vietnam War's effect on American society and culture often focuses on the public image of its veterans. Historians and other scholars credit liberal and apolitical Vietnam veterans for reshaping Americans' opinions of those who served. These men deserve significant recognition for these changes; however, historians consistently overlook another aspect this topic. Conservative Republicans in the mid-1970s through the early 1990s made a concerted effort to alter how Americans viewed Vietnam veterans and their performance in the conflict. The few scholars who have examined this issue suggest conservatives wanted to quell Americans' distaste for military endeavors after the loss in Southeast Asia, a concept known as the Vietnam Syndrome. This dissertation argues conservatives' efforts were more complex than simply wanting to break down the syndrome. The war and its loss threatened their understandings of the exceptional nature of the United States. This notion of exceptionalism stemmed from the immense success of the country territorially, economically, and in the international system, accomplishments realized with the assistance of the American military. The performance of the military establishment and its soldiers in the Vietnam War and the negative international and domestic opinions of the country in the wake of this loss threatened those elements of American success that conservatives viewed as imperative to maintaining the idea of exceptionalism and the power of the United States. As a result, a disparate group of conservative Republicans in the post-Vietnam era attempted to alter American understandings of the nation's martial tradition and the concept of martial masculinity, both ravaged by the war. This dissertation adds another layer to the historiography of the effects of the Vietnam War by arguing that conservatives not only shored up Americans' belief in the martial tradition and reshaped the definition of martial masculinity, but that they also significantly influenced Americans' newfound positive opinions of Vietnam veterans.
Author : Andrew L. Johns
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173698
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Vietnam's Second Front written by Andrew L. Johns and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War has been analyzed, dissected, and debated from multiple perspectives for decades, but domestic considerations—such as partisan politics and election-year maneuvering—are often overlooked as determining factors in the evolution and outcome of America's longest war. In Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party— its congressional leadership, politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration—on the escalation, prosecution, and resolution of the Vietnam War. This groundbreaking work also sheds new light on the relationship between Congress and the imperial presidency as they struggled for control over U.S. foreign policy. Beginning his analysis in 1961 and continuing through the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, Johns argues that the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations failed to achieve victory on both fronts of the Vietnam War—military and political—because of their preoccupation with domestic politics. Johns details the machinations and political dexterity required of all three presidents and of members of Congress to maneuver between the countervailing forces of escalation and negotiation, offering a provocative account of the ramifications of their decisions. With clear, incisive prose and extensive archival research, Johns's analysis covers the broad range of the Republican Party's impact on the Vietnam War, offers a compelling reassessment of responsibility for the conflict, and challenges assumptions about the roles of Congress and the president in U.S. foreign relations.
Author : Randall B. Woods
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521010009
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Vietnam and the American Political Tradition written by Randall B. Woods and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Sandra Scanlon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625340184
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Pro-war Movement written by Sandra Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Vietnam War altered the trajectory the American conservative movement
Author : Sandra Scanlon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Pro-war Movement written by Sandra Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian G. Appy
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143128345
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book American Reckoning written by Christian G. Appy and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy examines the war's realities and myths and its lasting impact on our national self-perception. Drawing on a vast variety of sources that range from movies, songs, and novels to official documents, media coverage, and contemporary commentary, Appy offers an original interpretation of the war and its far-reaching consequences for both our popular culture and our foreign policy.
Author : Matthew Kyle Yates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (756 download)
Download or read book The Conscience of a Movement written by Matthew Kyle Yates and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The rise of a conservative ideology within a broader New Right Movement in the United States is well documented among scholars of domestic U.S. history. That said, historians so far largely have ignored how foreign policy in general---and the Vietnam War in particular---both elevated and shaped conservatism as a leading political tradition. Debates over foreign aid, war strategy and tactics, the draft and Antiwar Movement, and Vietnamization shattered the New Right into warring camps, even as these issues drew the attention of the American electorate to the New Right as a whole. By the mid-1960s, conservatives ranging from intellectuals to media figures won preeminence within the broader New Right, not simply because of their views on domestic policy, but also as a result of their persuasive articulation of an evolving ideological position on these foreign policy issues. This dissertation will present an intellectual history of conservatism to argue that domestic debates about the Vietnam War gradually redefined the emergent philosophy as a politics of natural law theory, one well situated within the broader context of American and Western political philosophy.
Author : Phillip Jennings
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1596985674
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War written by Phillip Jennings and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shatters culturally accepted myths of the Vietnam War as it reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.
Author : Patrick Hagopian
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558496934
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Vietnam War in American Memory written by Patrick Hagopian and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of American attempts to come to terms with the legacy of the Vietnam War, this book highlights the central role played by Vietnam veterans in shaping public memory of the war. Tracing the evolution of the image of the Vietnam veteran from alienated dissenter to traumatized victim to noble warrior, Patrick Hagopian describes how efforts to commemorate the war increasingly downplayed the political divisions it spawned in favor of a more unifying emphasis on honoring veterans and promoting national 'healing.' Veterans themselves contributed to this process by mobilizing in the early 1980s to create a national memorial dedicated to all Americans who fought and died in Southeast Asia. At the same time, President Ronald Reagan, after failing to convince the public that the war was a 'noble cause, ' seized upon the idea of 'healing' as a way of reaffirming the value of military service and, by extension, countering the effects of the so-called Vietnam syndrome - the widespread fear that any assertive foreign policy initiative might result in 'another Vietnam.' It was with this aim in view, Hagopian reveals, that the Reagan administration worked quietly behind the scenes to ensure that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial would be completed, despite strong conservative opposition to Maya Lin's bold design"--Jacket.
Author : Michael Joe Allen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807832618
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Until the Last Man Comes Home written by Michael Joe Allen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how wartime loss in the Vietnam War transformed U.S. politics, arguing that the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate.
Author : Keith Beattie
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814798691
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The Scar That Binds written by Keith Beattie and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Scar That Binds, Keith Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam War and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound," "the voice" of the Vietnam veteran, and "home." The analysis of each theme draws on a range of sources, including film, memoir, poetry, written and oral history, journalism, and political speeches.
Author : Max Boot
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101216832
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book War Made New written by Max Boot and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise and fall of empires. War Made New begins with the Gunpowder Revolution and explains warfare's evolution from ritualistic, drawn-out engagements to much deadlier events, precipitating the rise of the modern nation-state. He next explores the triumph of steel and steam during the Industrial Revolution, showing how it powered the spread of European colonial empires. Moving into the twentieth century and the Second Industrial Revolution, Boot examines three critical clashes of World War II to illustrate how new technology such as the tank, radio, and airplane ushered in terrifying new forms of warfare and the rise of centralized, and even totalitarian, world powers. Finally, Boot focuses on the Gulf War, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the Iraq War—arguing that even as cutting-edge technologies have made America the greatest military power in world history, advanced communications systems have allowed decentralized, "irregular" forces to become an increasingly significant threat.
Author : Michael W. Flamm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742522138
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Debating the 1960s written by Michael W. Flamm and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debating the 1960s explores the decade through the controversies between radicals, liberals, and conservatives. The focus is on four main areas of contention: social welfare, civil rights, foreign relations, and social order. The book also examines the emergence of the New Left and the modern conservative movement. Combining analytical essays and historical documents, the book highlights the polarization of the era and assesses the enduring importance of the 1960s on contemporary American politics and society.
Author : A. J. Langguth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743212444
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Our Vietnam written by A. J. Langguth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research Nonfiction Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth delivers an authoritative account of the war based on official documents not available earlier and on new reporting from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. In Our Vietnam, Langguth takes us inside the waffling and deceitful White Houses of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; documents the ineptness and corruption of our South Vietnamese allies; and recounts the bravery of soldiers on both sides of the war. With its broad sweep and keen insights, Our Vietnam brings together the kaleidoscopic events and personalities of the war into one engrossing and unforgettable narrative.
Author : Jeffrey P. Kimball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nixon's Vietnam War written by Jeffrey P. Kimball and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The signing of the Paris Agreement in 1973 ended not only America's Vietnam War but also Richard Nixon's best laid plans. After years of secret negotiations, threats of massive bombing and secret diplomacy designed to shatter strained Communist alliances, the president had to settle for a peace that fell far short of his original aims.
