After Vietnam

Legacies of a Lost War
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6332-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 225 g

Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After Vietnam four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century.

In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration, disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to "revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neu, Charles E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Vietnam War and the Transformation of America
Chapter 2. From Metaphor to Quagmire: The Domestic Legacy of the Vietnam War
Chapter 3. Preparing Not to Refight the Last War: TheImpact of the Vietnam War on the U.S. Military
Chapter 4. Revolutionary Heroism and Politics in Postwar Vietnam
Chapter 5. Reflections on War in the Twenty-first Century
Notes
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Neu, Charles E
Charles E. Neu (MIAMI, FL) is Emeritus Professor of History at Brown University and an adjunct professor of history at the University of Miami. He is the author of many books, including Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner.

Charles E. Neu is a professor and chair in the department of history at Brown University. He is the author of The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan and An Uncertain Friendship: Theodore Roosevelt and Japan and the editor of The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link. Contributors: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia; Robert K. Brigham, Vassar College; George C. Herring, University of Kentucky; and Robert S. McNamara, former president of the Ford Motor Company, secretary of defense, and president of the World Bank.