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How does the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy now examines the partnership between your war's realities and misconceptions and its effect on our national personality, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar international policy. Drawing on a huge variety of options - from films, songs, and novels to public documents, marketing coverage, and modern-day commentary - Appy provides an original interpretation of the battle and its far-reaching outcomes. Authoritative, insightful, sometimes amazing, and controversial, American Reckoning is a fascinating mix of politics and ethnical reporting that offers a totally fresh accounts of the meaning of the Vietnam War.