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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.75 x 9 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 276
Publisher's Notes
This concise and lively introduction presents a history, of the role America played in the Vietnam War and how the consequences of the war changed American culture and society. Vietnam occurred simultaneously with the civil rights movement, women's liberation and youth culture movements. Award-winning author Robert Buzzanco examines how the war helped transform society -- sometimes radically -- at a period when America was most vulnerable. The book is divided into 2 sections. The first outlines the emergence of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese nationalist movement and explains why the United States intervened. It discusses the repeated escalations of the war in the Johnson and Nixon years and the lack of lasting success, and finally, the causes and consequences of American defeat. The second section examines the major political and social movements of the 1960s: liberalism, civil rights, and youth culture It studies the mass student mobilization against the war, which changed the nature of American political and social life, giving rise to other movements in turn. African-Americans, women, Latinos, and Native Americans intensified their own efforts to secure equal rights in American society. Vietnam and the Transformation of American life offers new insight into this divisive volatile, and crucial era in American history and its lasting impact on American politics and society.
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