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The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam

The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam

Hallin, Daniel C.

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General Military HistoryGeneral United States HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0520065433
ISBN13: 9780520065437
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 14 1989
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
This book was finished in the tenth year after the end of the Vietnam War. The year 1985 was also the year of Rambo, and of a number of other celebration of the Vietnam War in popular culture. It was the year Congress cut off aid to the Contras in Nicaragua, and then abruptly reversed itself and approved humanitarian aid to support the guerrilla war in that country. The Vietnam Syndrome showed signs of giving way tot he Grenada Syndrome the fear of repeating the Vietnam experience showed signs of giving way to a desire to relive it in an idealized form. The nation seemed deeply confused about its identity as an actor in world politics, and thus particularly vulnerable to appealing myths. So it is a good time to take a sober look back and the nation's consciousness during the Vietnam War itself--which as we shall see, despite the popular image of an independent media demolishing the nation's illusions, was also governed by a powerful mythology, born in part out of the traumas of earlier wars.

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