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The Tainted War: Culture and Identity in Vietnam War Narratives (Chap. 4 "The Walking Wounded") » Read Now
by Lloyd B. Lewis. 200 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...conclusions from the Vietnam veterans experiences and suggests...example of a group of war veterans whose narratives echo those of our Vietnam warriors are the...
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Legacy of a War: The American Soldier in Vietnam (Chap. 2 "The Effects of War") » Read Now
by Ellen Frey-Wouters, Robert S. Laufer. 438 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...321 1.2 Panel A: Vietnam Veterans Who Enlisted or Were Draft...322 1.5 Panel A: Vietnam Veterans in Vietnam Era Military by...Service 333 3.4 Vietnam Veterans Feelings...
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The Economic Consequences of the Vietnam War (includes "The Returning Veteran" on pg. 126) » Read Now
by Anthony S. Campagna. 162 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The consequences of the Vietnam War on the United States' economy is the subject of this work. Campagna provides a chronological study of the war's identifiable costs and benefits, beginning with the pre-war economy of the 1950s, through the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and culminating with...
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The consequences of the Vietnam War on the United States' economy is the subject of this work. Campagna provides a chronological study of the war's identifiable costs and benefits, beginning with the pre-war economy of the 1950s, through the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and culminating with Nixon's handling of the war and its aftermath. Both the short-term impact, including contemporary government and administration policies, and the long-term effects are examined, as Campagna describes the change in the basic economic structure that the war has been responsible for.
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A Patriot after All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet » Read Now
by Juan Ramirez. 180 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Told from the perspective of a Chicano soldier, this is an honest portrayal of a life marked forever by the Vietnam War.
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Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (Chap. 9 "Am I Right or Wrong?") » Read Now
by Christian G. Appy. 365 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Working-Class War explores the experience and attitudes of the 2.5 million American enlisted men who served in Vietnam, painting a compelling portrait of the war as it was lived by the troops who fought it.
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Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story (Chap. 20 "Lessons of Peace") » Read Now
by Norman L. Russell. 198 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Russell's story is more than a soldier's memoir because it speaks to the universal experience of soldiering. He also shares the struggles of his father, a WWII veteran who eventually took his own life, and his many comrades-in-arms. Russell wrote and produced an award-winning PBS-TV program entitled...
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Russell's story is more than a soldier's memoir because it speaks to the universal experience of soldiering. He also shares the struggles of his father, a WWII veteran who eventually took his own life, and his many comrades-in-arms. Russell wrote and produced an award-winning PBS-TV program entitled Fathers and Sons: Two Generations of American Combat Veterans.
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Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange » Read Now
by Fred A. Wilcox. 224 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Telling a tragic and important story, Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange chronicle their discovery of the cause of serious illnesses within their ranks and birth defects among their children, as well as their long battle with a government that refused to listen to their complaints.
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Reaction of Vietnam Veterans to the Persian Gulf War, in Health and Social Work » Read Now
by Felice R. Kobrick. 7 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Reaction of Vietnam veterans to the Persian Gulf War. by...psychological effect worldwide. For Vietnam veterans, the Persian Gulf War was a reminder...war for their...
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Stress, Strain, and Vietnam: An Annotated Bibliography of Two Decades of Psychiatric and Social Sciences Literature Reflecting the Effect of the War on the American Soldier » Read Now
by Norman M. Camp, Robert H. Stretch, William C. Marshall. 318 pgs.

Collections: History, Psychology, Entire Library

This bibliography collects and summarizes published observations, research findings, opinions, and conclusions of mental health professionals, social scientists, and other trained observers regarding the effects of the Vietnam War on those Americans who fought in it. The 851 citations span the years...
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This bibliography collects and summarizes published observations, research findings, opinions, and conclusions of mental health professionals, social scientists, and other trained observers regarding the effects of the Vietnam War on those Americans who fought in it. The 851 citations span the years from 1965, when large numbers of U.S. combat troops were first committed in Vietnam, through 1987. The authors have included primarily psychiatric, social, and behavioral science publications which are augmented with personal narratives of those who served, descriptions by and reactions of war correspondents, and historical reviews of the war and the period, including observations and analyses of the war's effect on the combat soldier.
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Wounds of War: The Psychological Aftermath of Combat in Vietnam » Read Now
by Herbert Hendin, Ann Pollinger Haas. 256 pgs.

Collections: History, Psychology, Entire Library

...war. Large scale studies of Vietnam veterans, relying on questionnaires or...mirror the wider population of Vietnam veterans in terms of demographic and...socioeconomic...
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Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America » Read Now
by W. D. Ehrhart. 150 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Between March and September of 1974, as Richard Nixon's presidency unraveled on national television, Bill Ehrhart, a decorated Marine Corps sergeant and antiwar Vietnam veteran, fought to retain his merchant seaman's card after being busted for possession of marijuana. He was also arrested on...
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Between March and September of 1974, as Richard Nixon's presidency unraveled on national television, Bill Ehrhart, a decorated Marine Corps sergeant and antiwar Vietnam veteran, fought to retain his merchant seaman's card after being busted for possession of marijuana. He was also arrested on suspicion of armed robbery in New York City, detained on the Garden State Parkway for looking like a Puerto Rican revolutionary, and thrown out of New Jersey by the Maple Shade police. All of this occurred while the House Judiciary Committee conducted hearings on Nixon's impeachment. Busted shows an acute awareness of the ironies of these juxtapositions, as Ehrhart recounts a surreal cross-country journey in search of justice in a nation that has lost its way, betrayed by its leaders. Picking up the narrative of Vietnam-Perkasie and Passing Time, this third book in Ehrhart's Vietnam War trilogy is an exploration of the contradiction between law and justice in Nixon's America and an examination of why the wounds inflicted on the United States by the war are so slow to heal.
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Vietnam Veterans: The Road to Recovery » Read Now
by Joel Osler Brende, Erwin Randolph Parson. 263 pgs.

Collections: History, Psychology, Entire Library

...VIETNAM VETERANS The Road to Recovery VIETNAM VETERANS The Road to Recovery Joel Osler Brende and...Cataloging in Publication Data Brende, Joel Osler. Vietnam veterans...
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Labor Force Status of Vietnam-Era Veterans (1987), in Monthly Labor Review » Read Now
by Sharon R. Cohany. 7 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Labor force status of Vietnam-era veterans. by Sharon R. Cohany...the labor force status of Vietnam-era veterans is generally quite similar...An estimated 70 percent of...