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American myth and the legacy of Vietnam / John Hellmann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1986.Description: xiv, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0231058780 (alk. paper)
  • 9780231058780 (alk. paper)
  • 0231058799
  • 9780231058797
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS558 .H44 1986
Contents:
"An angry dream": the Cold War, Southeast Asia, and the American mythic landscape -- The return of the frontier hero: national purpose and the legend of the Green Berets -- The antiwar movement and the frontier -- Good sons: the soldiers' antimyth -- The hero seeks a way out -- Epic return -- Toward new myth.
Summary: Includes critical estimates of such novels as The ugly American, by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick, and The Green Berets, by Robin Moore; and such films as The deer hunter and Apocalypse now.
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library HISTORY 959.704/HEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844100115118

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [225]-233.

"An angry dream": the Cold War, Southeast Asia, and the American mythic landscape -- The return of the frontier hero: national purpose and the legend of the Green Berets -- The antiwar movement and the frontier -- Good sons: the soldiers' antimyth -- The hero seeks a way out -- Epic return -- Toward new myth.

Includes critical estimates of such novels as The ugly American, by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick, and The Green Berets, by Robin Moore; and such films as The deer hunter and Apocalypse now.

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