American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity

The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam’s place in America’s self-image

How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? In American Reckoning, Christian G. Appy—author of Patriots, the widely praised oral history of the Vietnam War—examines the war’s realities and myths and its lasting impact on our national self-perception. Drawing on a vast variety of sources that range from movies, songs, and novels to offic...