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The War in Vietnam: Studies in Remembrance and Legacy, 2000–2014 (June 2016): Works Cited

By Jerry Lembcke

Works Cited: Books

After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War, ed. by Charles E. Neu.  Johns Hopkins, 2000.

Allen, Michael J.  Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam WarNorth Carolina, 2009 (CH, Jun’10, 47-5828).

America in the Seventies, ed. by Beth Bailey and David Farber.  University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Appy, Christian G.  Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All SidesViking, 2003.

Arsenault, Chris.  Blowback: A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home.  Fernwood Publishing, 2009.

Bates, Milton.  The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and StorytellingCalifornia, 1996 (CH, Mar’97, 34-3716).

Beattie, Keith.  The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War.  New York University, 1998 (CH, Nov’98, 36-1753).

Belknap, Michal R.  The Vietnam War on Trial: The My Lai Massacre and the Court Martial of Lieutenant Calley.  University Press of Kansas, 2003 (CH, May’03, 40-5480).

Berman, Larry.  The Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Phan Xuan AnHarper Perennial, 2008.

Blight, James G., and Janet M. Lang.  The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Bothmer, Bernard von.  Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. BushMassachusetts, 2010 (CH, Dec’10, 48-2267).

Boulton, Mark.  Failing Our Veterans: The GI Bill and the Vietnam Generation.  New York University, 2014 (CH, Jan’15, 52-2729).

Boyle, Brenda M.  Masculinity in Vietnam War Narratives: A Critical Study of Fiction, Films, and Nonfiction Writings.  McFarland, 2009 (CH, Feb’10, 47-3012).

Bradley, Doug, and Craig Werner.  We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War.  Massachusetts, 2015.

Brigham, Robert K.  ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese ArmyUniversity Press of Kansas, 2006.

____.  Is Iraq Another Vietnam?  PublicAffairs, 2006 (CH, Oct’07, 45-1106).

Brinkley, Douglas.  Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam WarWilliam Morrow, 2004.

Burkett, B. G., and Glenna Whitley.  Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and HistoryVerity Press, 1998.

Catton, Philip E.  Diem’s Final Failure: Prelude to America’s War in VietnamUniversity Press of Kansas, 2002.

Cowie, Peter.  The Apocalypse Now BookDa Capo, 2000.

Dancis, Bruce.  Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War.  Cornell, 2014.

Dipple, John V. H.  War and Sex: A Brief History of Men’s Urge for Battle.  Prometheus Books, 2010.

Edkins, Jenny.  Trauma and the Memory of PoliticsCambridge, 2003.

Elliott, David W.P.  The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-19752v.  M.E. Sharpe, 2003.

Espiritu, Yen Le.  Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)California, 2014 (CH, Mar’15, 52-3843).

Faludi, Susan.  Backlash: The Undeclared War against American WomenCrown, 1991.

____.  The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 AmericaMetropolitan Books, 2007.

Fentress, James, and Chris Wickham.  Social MemoryBlackwell, 1992.

Foley, Michael S.  Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam WarNorth Carolina, 2003 (CH, Nov’03, 41-1755).

Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War, ed. by Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini.  Duke University, 2013 (CH, Dec’13, 51-2219).

Franklin, H. Bruce.  M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America: How and Why Belief in Live POWs Has Possessed a NationLawrence Hill Books, 1992.

____.  Vietnam and Other American FantasiesMassachusetts, 2000 (CH, Apr’01, 38-4644).

Gardner, Lloyd C., and Marilyn B. Young.  Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the PastNew Press, 2007.

Gibson, James William.  Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam AmericaHill and Wang, 1995.

Goldstein, Gordon M.  Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam.  Times Books/H. Holt, 2008.

Graham, Herman, III.  The Brothers’ Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience.  University Press of Florida, 2003 (CH, Apr’04, 41-4853).

Hagan, John.  Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in CanadaHarvard, 2001 (CH, Nov’01, 39-1775).

Hagopian, Patrick.  The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of HealingMassachusetts, 2009 (CH, Dec’09, 47-2196).

Halstead, Fred.  Out Now: A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the United States against the Vietnam WarPathfinder, 2001.

Hautzinger, Sarah, and Jean Scandlyn.  Beyond Post-traumatic Stress: Homefront Struggles with the War on Terror.  Left Coast, 2014 (CH, Sep’14, 52-0566).

Howes, Craig.  Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their FightOxford, 1993 (CH, Apr’94, 31-4565).

Hunt, Andrew E.  The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans against the WarNew York University, 2001.

Hunt, David.  Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total WarMassachusetts, 2008 (CH, Feb’10, 47-3330).

Jason, Philip K.  Acts and Shadows: The Vietnam War in American Literary CultureRowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Kaes, Anton.  Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of WarPrinceton, 2009 (CH, May’10, 47-4916).

Karnow, Stanley.  Vietnam: A History.  Viking. 1983.

Kent State and May 4th: A Social Science Perspective, ed. by Thomas R. Hensley and Jerry M. Lewis.  3rd ed., rev. and expanded.  Kent State, 2010.

Kiernan, David.  Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public MemoryMassachusetts, 2014 (CH, Feb’15, 52-3281).

Kinney, Katherine.  Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam WarOxford, 2000 (CH, Jun’01, 38-5451).

Kulik, Gary.  War Stories: False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter Soldiers—What Really Happened in VietnamPotomac Books, 2009 (CH, Aug’10, 47-7058).

Kuzmarov, Jeremy.  The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on DrugsMassachusetts, 2009 (CH, May’10, 47-5223).

Kwon, Heonik.  After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My LaiCalifornia, 2006.

Laderman, Scott.  Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and MemoryDuke University, 2009 (CH, Sep’09, 47-0441).

Lair, Meredith H.  Armed with Abundance: Consumerism & Soldiering in the Vietnam WarNorth Carolina, 2011 (CH, Jun’12, 49-5877).

Landers, James.  The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and VietnamMissouri, 2004 (CH, Jan’05, 42-2622).

Lembcke, Jerry.  CNN’s Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam’s Last Great MythRowman & Littlefield, 2003 (CH, May’04, 41-5113).

____Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal.  Massachusetts, 2010 (CH, Feb’11, 48-3541).

____.  PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire AmericaLexington Books, 2013 (CH, Jul’14, 51-6242).

____.  The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of VietnamNew York University, 1998 (CH, Dec’98, 36-2342).

Lewes, James.  Protest and Survive: Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam WarPraeger, 2003 (CH, Mar’04, 41-3874).

Lewis, Penny.  Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory.  ILR Press, 2013 (CH, Nov’13, 51-1683).

Logevall, Fredrik.  Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s VietnamRandom House, 2012.

Lomperis, Timothy J.  The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon: An Intelligence Officer’s Memoir, 1972-1973University Press of Kansas, 2011.

Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essays, ed. by Robert McMahon.  4th ed.  Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Maraniss, David.  They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Martini, Edwin A.  Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty.  Massachusetts, 2012 (CH, May’13, 50-4968).

____Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000Massachusetts, 2007.

McEldowny, Carol Cohen.  Hanoi Journal, 1967, ed. by Suzanne Kelley McCormack and Elizabeth R. Mock.  Massachusetts, 2007.

Moyar, Mark.  Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965Cambridge, 2006 (CH, May’07, 44-5183).

Neale, Jonathan.  A People’s History of the Vietnam WarNew Press, 2003 (CH, Mar’04, 41-4180).

New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact, ed. by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen.  McFarland, 2014 (CH, Apr’15, 52-4360).

Oropeza, Lorena.  Raza Sí! Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Viet Nam War EraCalifornia, 2005 (CH, Feb’06, 43-3588).

Page, Tim.  Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side, ed. by Doug Niven and Chris RileyNational Geographic, 2002.

Paulson, Daryl S.  Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War VeteransRowman & Littlefield, 2010.

Perrin, Dick, with Tim McCarthy.  G.I. Resister: The Story of How One American and His Family Fought the War in Vietnam.  Trafford, 2001.

Porter, Gareth.  Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in VietnamCalifornia, 2005 (CH, Apr’06, 43-4871).

Prados, John.  Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975.  University Press of Kansas, 2009 (CH, Mar’10, 47-3962).

Race, Jeffrey.  War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province.  Updated and exp. ed.  California, 2010.

Reid, Fiona.  Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain, 1914-1930Pbk. ed.  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011.

Roth, Michael S.  Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the PastColumbia, 2012.

Rudd, Mark.  Underground: My Life with SDS and the WeathermenHarperCollins, 2009.

Scanlon, Sandra.  The Pro-war Movement: Domestic Support for the War in Vietnam and the Making of Modern American ConservatismMassachusetts, 2013.

Schwenkel, Christina.  The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and RepresentationIndiana, 2009 (CH, May’10, 47-5188).

Scott, Wilbur, Jr.  Vietnam Veterans since the War: The Politics of PTSD, Agent Orange, and the National MemorialOklahoma, 2004.

Shephard, Ben.  A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century.  Harvard, 2001.

Sherwood, John Darrell.  Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War EraNew York University, 2007.

Shultz, Richard H., Jr.  The Secret War against Hanoi: Kennedy’s and Johnson’s Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North VietnamHarper Collins, 1999.

Sirota, David.  Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our EverythingBallantine Books, 2011.

Small, Melvin.  Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America’s Hearts and MindsScholarly Resources, 2002 (CH, Apr’03, 40-4826).

Soldier Talk: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative, ed. by Paul Budra and Michael Zeitlin.  Indiana, 2004 (CH, May’05, 42-5486).

Stacewicz, Richard.  Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans against the WarTwayne/Prentice Hall International, 1997 (CH, May’98, 35-5273).

Taylor, Philip.  Fragments of the Present: Searching for Modernity in Vietnam’s SouthHawai’i, 2001.

Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art, ed. by Mark Heberle.  Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

Topmiller, Robert J.  The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930, ed. by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner.  Cambridge, 2001.

Turse, Nick.  Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in VietnamMetropolitan Books/H. Holt, 2013.

Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975: The Military History Institute of Vietnam, tr. by Merle L. Pribbenow.  University Press of Kansas, 2002 (CH, Dec’02, 40-2344).

Vietnam and America: A Documented History, ed. by Marvin Gettleman et al.  2nd ed., rev. and enlarged.  Grove Press, 1995.

The Vietnam War: A History in Documents, ed. by Marilyn Young and John J. Fitzgerald.  Oxford, 2003.

The Vietnam War: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature, ed. by Brenda M. Boyle.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2015 (CH, Aug’15, 52-6278).

Vietnam War Films, ed. by Jean-Jacques Malo and Tony Williams.  McFarland, 1994.

War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, by Tad Bartimus et al.; introd. by Gloria Emerson.  Random House, 2002.

Weaver, Gina Marie.  Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in the Vietnam WarSUNY Press, 2010.

Wells, Tom.  The War Within: America’s Battle over VietnamCalifornia, 1994.

Woods, Randall B.  Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of DissentCambridge, 2003 (CH, Sep’03, 41-0608).

Wyatt, David.  When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968.  Massachusetts, 2014 (CH, Nov’14, 52-1619).

Young, Allan.  The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.  Princeton, 1997.

Zaretsky, Natasha.  No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980North Carolina, 2007.

Zierler, David.  The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think about the EnvironmentGeorgia, 2011.

Works Cited: Television and Film

Apocalypse Now.  Francis Ford Coppola.  United Artists-Zoetrope, 1979.

The Fog of War.  Errol Morris.  Sony Picture Classics, 2003.

Last Days in Vietnam.  Rory Kennedy.  PBS, 2015.

Sir! No Sir!  David Zeiger.  Displaced Films, 2005.

Star Trek.  TV series, Desilu Productions, 1966.