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Can Vietnam awaken us again? Teaching the literature of the Vietnam War - 1
We must never forget that the Vietnam War created the most powerful antiwar movement in history. Even the Modern Language Association was shaken to its roots, making it sprout such forbidden fruit...(Continue Reading) The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. - Review - book review
The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 156. $40.00.) In his ......(Continue Reading)Songs of Protest
SONGS OF PROTEST Rhino Records CD (1991), $11.98. WORLD WAR I SONGS Volume 1 of 2 from Mark Best, www.besmark.com/ww1b.html. $11.95 for tape, $16.96 for CD, plus $3.95 shipping/handling. (The...(Continue Reading)Conflicting accounts: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam - Film As Text
Bill Couturie's Dear America (1987) provides a view of the American involvement in Vietnam in a way that proves both bipartisan and viscerally emotional....(Continue Reading)Pete Seeger's last war: the grand old lion of the American left sings to fight another day
ON THE DAY Ronald Reagan died, an atypically modest tribute to the patriarch of the right appeared at the foot of a veteran's monument in Wappingers ......(Continue Reading)
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