Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of
Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy (1969) and
The Vietnam Wars (1991), winner of the Berkshire Women’s History Prize. She is the co-author of
Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (with William Rosenberg, 1980),
Promissory Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (with Rayna Rapp and Sonia Kruks, 1983), and
Vietnam and America (with Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin, and Bruce Franklin, 1995), and is the co-editor of
Human Rights and Revolutions (with Lynn Hunt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, 2000).
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), winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, and Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (Blackwell, 1999).