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Fri, 02/13/2015 - 9:00am to 10:00am
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity with Christian Appy
Host Marvin Simmons interviews Christian G. Appy about his new book, "American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity."
February 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's decision to begin the massive escalation of the Vietnam War. Christian Appy offers a fresh lens for understanding the United States in the context of its most controversial conflict as well as its twenty-first century wars. He shows how Vietnam entered American consciousness, first as an idealistic vision, then as a faraway brushfire war, and then, with each passing year, as a brutal, endless, and devastating catastrophe that shattered the broad faith in American exceptionalism and left a majority of citizens convinced their nation was engaged in an immoral war.
February 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's decision to begin the massive escalation of the Vietnam War. Christian Appy offers a fresh lens for understanding the United States in the context of its most controversial conflict as well as its twenty-first century wars. He shows how Vietnam entered American consciousness, first as an idealistic vision, then as a faraway brushfire war, and then, with each passing year, as a brutal, endless, and devastating catastrophe that shattered the broad faith in American exceptionalism and left a majority of citizens convinced their nation was engaged in an immoral war.
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