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- catalog abstract "Discusses what led us into Vietnam, how it has changed our culture today and how it may change our culture in the future. This is the only book to examine the myths of the American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire in the first place. It exposes our national myths: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumptions that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our faith in a technology that supposedly makes us invincible. It also discusses how Vietnam has changed American culture today, and in the future. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b499346.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1945-".
- catalog created "c1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "c1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1985.".
- catalog description "Discusses what led us into Vietnam, how it has changed our culture today and how it may change our culture in the future.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This is the only book to examine the myths of the American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire in the first place. It exposes our national myths: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumptions that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our faith in a technology that supposedly makes us invincible. It also discusses how Vietnam has changed American culture today, and in the future. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog description "pt. I, Tinder: the myths we take to war : 1. God's country and American know-how -- pt. II, Fire: decisions that made the war : 2. The chain to vietnam -- 3. The invention of South Vietnam -- 4. War by the numbers -- 5. The politics of ego -- pt. III, Backfire: bureaucracy at war : 6. Enabling ingnorance -- 7. The warriors -- 8. The American lullaby.".
- catalog extent "393 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Backfire.".
- catalog identifier "068804185X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Backfire.".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "c1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W. Morrow,".
- catalog relation "Backfire.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "DS558 .B37 1985".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I, Tinder: the myths we take to war : 1. God's country and American know-how -- pt. II, Fire: decisions that made the war : 2. The chain to vietnam -- 3. The invention of South Vietnam -- 4. War by the numbers -- 5. The politics of ego -- pt. III, Backfire: bureaucracy at war : 6. Enabling ingnorance -- 7. The warriors -- 8. The American lullaby.".
- catalog title "Backfire : a history of how American culture led us into Vietnam and made us fight the way we did / Loren Baritz.".
- catalog type "text".