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008 850424s1986 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 _a0231058780 (alk. paper)
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050 0 _aDS558
_b.H44 1986
100 1 _aHellmann, John,
_d1948-
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245 1 0 _aAmerican myth and the legacy of Vietnam /
_cJohn Hellmann.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c1986.
300 _axiv, 241 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
504 _aBibliography: p. [225]-233.
505 0 _a"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.
520 _aIncludes 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.
650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975
_zUnited States.
_915003
650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975
_xInfluence.
_915004
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American.
_915005
650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975
_xLiterature and the war.
_915006
650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975
_xMotion pictures and the war.
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_cBK