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Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life

ISBN: 978-1-577-18094-4

January 1999

Wiley-Blackwell

290 pages

Description
The Vietnam War, which dominated American life during the 1960s, helped to create, radicalize, and alter social and political life in the US.
About the Author
Robert Buzzanco is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), which received the Stuart L. Bernath Prize for best book in diplomatic history in 1996. In 1998 he was named as outstanding young scholar in his field by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Features
* Concise and accessible treatment of the history of the Vietnam War and late 1960s America and their vital interconnectedness.
* Uses the Vietnam War as a focal point for examining the transformation of American culture that occurred during that era.
* Designed for maximum effectiveness in the classroom, avoids a rigid historical chronology of the era in favor of integrating the major social upheaval of the era with the events of the war.