Vietnam GenerationVolume 1Number 2 A White Man's War: Race Issues andVietnam

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2-1989

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NatIonaI Advisony B oarcJ

Nancy Anlsfield English Dept. Champlain College

Dr. James C. Scott Southeast Asian Studies Vale University

Dr. Arthur Blank DirectorReadjustment Couns Svc. Veterans' Administration

Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain Political Science Dept. Vanderbilt University

Dr. Richard Falk Princeton University CtT. of International Studies

Dr. Robert Slabey English Dept,University of Notre Dame

Dr. Nancy Wiegersma Political Science & Economics Fitchburg State College

Dr. Christine Peter White History Dept.Southeast Asian Studies Ctr. Cornell University

Dr. David Hunt Co-Chairman William Joiner Center History Dept.Unlv. of Mass, at Boston ft. 1=0 fDr. Philip K. Jason English Dept.US Naval Academy

Dr. Gabriel Kolko, FRSC Distinguished Res. Prof. History Dept.York University

Dr. Jacqueline Lawson English Dept.Unlv. of Michigan

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William King DirectorBlack Studies ProgUnlv. of Colorado at Boulder

Michael KleinAmerican StudiesUniv. of Ulster at Jordanstown

Ruth Rosen History Dept.UC DavisInst, for the Study of Soc. Change. UC Berkeley

Dr. David MarrResearch Sch. of Pacific Stud. Pacific and SE Asian History Australian National Universty

Jock Reynolds Executive Director Washington Project for the Arts

Dr. Tom Riddell Economics Dept.Smith College

Dr. William J. Searle English Dept.Eastern Illinois University

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SpEcUl EdiTORs ANd Topics of UpccwviiNQ Issues

April 1989 — A White Man’s War: Race Issues and Vietnam. Dr. W illiam King. Black Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder. Boulder, CO 80309.

Juiy 1989 — Teaching the War. Interdisciplinary Strategies.Dr. N. Bradley Christie, Stetson University, Department of English, Box 8308, DeLand. FL 32720.

October 1989— GenderandWar. Dr. Jacqueline Lawson, University of Michigan at Dearbome, Department of Humanities, College of Arts. Sciences, and Letters, Dearborn, Ml 48128.

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PubliCATION OppORTUNiTiES

UMI Research Press Invites proposals for single- or multi­author books or anthologies for two new series; Studies in Film and Television, edited by Robert Sklar of New York Univ., and Challenging the Literary Canon, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Cornell Univ.,andJ. H lllis Miller of the Univ. of California at Irvine, among others. They welcome work from a variety of critical approaches and Interdisciplinary studies. For more Information about these series or to receive a list of new and forthcoming books, contact Barbara K. Timmons, Acquisitions Editor, UMI Research Press. 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106.

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Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Meeting, April 5-8, St. Louis,MO. Everyone interested in Vietnam Era and Generation scholarship should be aware of this conference. Because of its importance to the field, we are listing all panels and presenters who deal with topics relevant to the field.

Vietnam Homecoming: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Chair: Catherine Calloway, English, Arkansas State Univ. "Healing from the War; Images of Renewal and Transcendence in Lany Heinemann's Close Quarters.' John Bowers, English, College of St. Francis; "Epilogues; A Generational Study of the Post-Com bat Readjustm ent Experiences of Veterans of WW2, Korea, and Vietnam,' Kyra Kester, History, Univ. of Washington at Seattle; "Moon Landing: A Memory.' Rebecca B. Faery, 730 N. Linn St., Iowa City. IA; "The Only Cure I Know is a Good Ceremony: The Ritual of Return in Selected Vietnam War Fiction,' Catherine Calloway. Respondent: Robert Burko, English, Carroll College.

The Vietnam Aviator: Myth and Reality. Chair: Charles J. Gaspar, English, USAFA. "Awash in Infidelity: Achieving Distance from War in Coming Home.' Gwendolyn D. Fayne, English, USAFA; "I, Too, Sing America: Vietnam as Metaphor in Coming Home.' Verner D. Mitchell, English, USAFA; "Patriots and Politics: The Myth of the Riot in Vietnam,' Herbert Smith. English, USAFA; "From the Ground Up: The Grunt's Image of the Aviator in Vietnam Fiction and Film,' Charles J. Gaspar.

Vietnam Today—Slide Presentation. Chair: Cecil B. Currey, History, Univ. of South Florida. "Vietnam Today,' Cecil Currey.

Vietnam War Film s: Perception and Representation. Chair: Tony Williams. Cinema & Photography, So. Illinois Univ. "The Resurrection of the Male as Logos,' Ra Cseri- Briones. Cinema & Photography, So. Illinois Univ.; "Anti-War GIs and Vietnam: The Forgotten Voice of Protest,' Dane Thompson, Cinema & Photography, So. Illinois Univ.; "Issues of Gender in Vietnam Cinema,' Jennifer Johns, Cinema & Photography, So. Illinois Univ.; 'F u ll Metal Jacket's Excremental Vision,' Tony Williams.

The Vietnam Aviator: Constructed and Deconstructed Meanings. Chair: James Quivey, English, Eastern Illinois Univ. "The Images of the Aviator in the New Media,' Thomas D. Klincar, English, USAFA; "Survival Psychology and Bat 21 .' George M. Luker, English, USAFA; "The Huey Legacy in Vietnam Fiction,' William T. Merrick, English, USAFA; "The Great War and the Dirty Little War,' James R. Aubrey, English, USAFA.

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Issues and Themes in the Literature of the Vietnam War. Chair: David A. Willson, Librarian, Green River Community College, Auburn, WA. 'Women and the Vietnam War,' Joe P. Dunn, History & Politics, Converse College; 'Darkness in the East: The Vietnam Novels of Takeshi Kaiko,* Mark A. Heberle, English, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa; 'Vietnam Narrative and Science Fiction: Robert Heinlein and Joe Haldeman,' Dan Duffy, 188 Mansfield St., New Haven, CT 06511; 'Nam Porno: A Study of the Pornographic Literature of the Vietnam War," David A. Willson.

Myth and Vietnam. Chair: William J. Searle, English, Eastern Illinois Univ. 'The Myth of the Warrior in Mark Baker's N a m ' Robert M. Slabey. English, Univ. of Notre Dame; 'Good Guy Gone Bad: The Figure of the Inverted Hero in Literary Narrative of the Vietnam War,* Gerald T. Burns, Wesleyan Univ.; 'A s Soldier Lads Pass By...' Alan F. Farrell, Modern Languages, Hampden-Sydney College.

Women Writers and the Vietnam War. Chair: Kate B. Meyers, English Language & Literature, Univ. of Tulsa. ‘Humping the Boonies: Sex, Combat, and the Female in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country," Katherine Kinney, English, Univ. of Pennsylvania; 'Cassandra's Notebooks: Joan Didion and V ietnam ,' Gordon O. Taylor, English Language and Literature, Univ. of Tulsa; ‘ Painful Mirror Games: Doubling in the Vietnam War Plays by Megan Terry and Adrienne Kennedy,' Lori Hall Burghardt, English, Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Vietnam and the Issues of Violence and Atrocity. Chair: Cornelius A. Cronin, English, Louisiana State Univ. at Baton Rouge. ‘Counting Small Boned Bodies and Other Pastimes: An Examination of Five Poems Protesting the Vietnam War,' Delma M. Porter, English,Texas A&M; 'W ith Children as Targets: The War Against American Personnel Outside Vietnam,* Oscar Patterson III, Telecom­munications, Pembroke State Univ.; 'Philip Caputo and the Impact of Violence,* Thomas R. Maddux. History, California State Univ. at Northridge; 'Their Dreams that Drip withMurder: TheAtrocityinAmericanWriting About the Vietnam War," Cornelius A. Cronin.

Vietnam War Literature: Context and Canon. Chair: Tobey C. Heizog, English, Wabash College. 'MIA: Vietnam and the Canon,' Michael Bibby, English, Univ. of Minnesota at

Minneapolis; “Versions of Reality in Current Vietnam War Novels.' Gary Acton, English. Eastern Montana College; ‘American Blood Becomes American Light—Two Recent Fictional Views of the Vietnam War.'Tony Edmonds, History, Ball State Univ.; 'Readers and Critics Searching for Contexts in Vietnam Narratives,' Tobey C. Herzog.

The Vietnam Experience and the Question of Genre. Chair: Don Ringnalda, English, College of St. Thomas. ‘Resistance and Revision in Poetry by Vietnam Veterans.' Lorrie Smith, English, St. Michael's College; 'The Deer Hunter as American Epic,' Bob Bourdette. English, Univ. of New Orleans; ’The Vietnam War Combat Film: A Genre Unto Itself.* Ralph B. Donald, Mass Communication, Westfield State College; ’Getting it Wrong is Doing it Right: America's Vietnam War Drama,* Don Ringnalda.

Ways of War: New Perspectives on the American Experience. Chair: William Woodward. History, Seattle Pacific Univ.; ’Another Front: Writing and Returning from Vietnam.' MariaS. Bonn. English, SUNY Buffalo; ’War and the Teaching of History,' Michael L. Salevouris, History, Webster Univ.

American War Comics from WW2 through Vietnam. Chair: Bill Gipson, Sociology, Southern Methodist Univ. ’Vietnam War Comics and the American War Novel,' Rick Berg, English, PitzerCollege; ’ Reprocessing the War in The Nam .' Harry W. Haines, Communications, Trinity Univ; ‘The Utopia of Male Warrior Societies in American War Comics,* Bill Gipson.

Vietnam. Television, andother Media. Chair: Al Auster,Television 8c Radio, Brooklyn College. “Television on Trial: Deception and Denial in the Case of The Uncounted Enemy.' Carol Wilder, Communications, San Francisco State Univ.; ‘The War and Its Aftermath: The Evolving Image of the Vietnam Experience in Network Television Drama,* M. Elaine Browne. English, New York Inst, of Tech.; 'Press Coverage of the Tonkin Gulf Incidents,* Edwin Moise, History, Clemson Univ.; 'The War over the War: Television Documentary and the Vietnam War,’ Al Auster.

Vietnam and Current Criticdl Thinking. Chair: N. Bradley Christie, English, Stetson Univ. 'The Absent Presence in Revisionist Vietnam History,* Stephen Vlastos, Univ. of Iowa; 'Refiguring America's Heart of Darkness: The Narrative Quest and the Typology of

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Otherness in Representations of Vietnam,' Eric Meyer, English, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison; ‘The Gordian Knot: Rhetoric and Values in Paco's Story and In Country.’ Andrea Sanders, English. Univ. of Chicago; ‘Re/Reading Bom on the Fourth of J u ly ' N. Bradley Christie.

The Vietnam War and Modem Memory. Chair: Philip K. Jason, English, USNA. ‘Vietnam Novelists and Other Wars: I've Seen this Movie Before,' Nancy Anisfield. English, Champlain College; ‘Memory, Desire, and Vietnam,'David Ullrich, English, Birmingham- Southern College; ‘The Noise is Always in My Head: Auditory Images in Vietnam War Literature,' Philip K. Jason.

Narrative Technique in Vietnam War Fiction. Chair: Renate W. Prescott, American Culture, Bowling Green State Univ. ‘Vietnam Discourse in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country." Aileen Chris Shafer, English, West Virginia Univ; ’ In Country and In the Country of the Mind,' Lonnie L. Willis, English, Boise State Univ.; ‘Almosting It: Cacciato and the Problem of Teleology,' Grant F. Scott, English, UCLA; ‘The Collective Narrative Voice in Paco's Story. The Dead Speak,' Renate W. Prescott.

The Vietnam War Film. Chair: Bennet Schaber, English, Syracuse Univ. ‘Who Are These People? Vietnamese in American Films,' Martin Novelli, Asst. Provost for Academic Affairs, Rutgers; ‘A Brief Examination of the Vietnam War Film as a Distinctive Film Genre: Or Old Myths Adapted, a New Myth Created,' Robert T. Baird.English,Oklahoma State Univ; ‘ The Horror, the Horror: Apocalypse Now as Horror Film,' James N. Votes, English, Oklahoma State Univ.; ‘Rambo, Revisionism, and Reality,' George E. Hopkins, History, Western Illinois Univ.; ‘Vietnam, The Movie from War to Voice Over,' Bennet Schaber,

Teaching the Vietnam War. Chair: Jerold M. Starr, Center for Social Studies Education, 115MayfairDr.,Pittsburgh,PA. ‘Pedagogical Implications of Teaching Literature of the Vietnam W ar,' Fred A. Wilcox, Box 576, Trumansburg. NY; ‘The International Studies Approach to Teaching the Vietnam War: The Need for Balance,' Dennis Lubeck, D irector, Inte rnationa l Educational Consortium, 6800 Wydown, St. Louis, MO; ’Teaching Teachers About the Vietnam War.' Joel Glassman, Centerfor International

Studies, Univ. of Missouri; ‘ Introducing The Lesson of the Vietnam War: A Modular Textbook.’ Jerold M. Starr.

Politics of Self-Deception: Lacunae in Contemporary Vietnam Scholarship. Chair: Kali Tal, Vietnam Generation. ‘Of Politics and Protest: Memories of a Student Activist,1969-1972,' Jacqueline Lawson, English,Univ. of Michigan at Dearbome: ‘Contemporary Black Scholarship and the Study of the Vietnam War,' Herman Beavers, American Studies, Vale Univ.; ‘ Minority Drama About the Vietnam War,' Dave DeRose, Director of Theater Studies, Yale Univ.; ‘ Glaring Omissions: Personal Politics and the Recent Scholarship on the Vietnam War,' Kali Tal.

Vietnam: The Antiwar Movement. Chair: Benjamin! Harrison.History,Univ. of Louisville. ‘The Iconography of Dissent: Vietnam Imagery in the Underground Journals of the 1960s,' Mary Lee Muller, History, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison; ‘Shattered Faith: Student Anti-War Protesters and the Disintegrating American Dream,' Jacqueline R. Smetak, English, Iowa State Univ. at Ames; ‘Vietnam and the Dan Quayle Syndrome,' Jerome Loving, English, Texas A&M; ‘The 1960s Peace Movement: Success or Failure?' Benjamin T. Harrison.

Vietnam in the Classroom: Issues and Techniques. Chair: Steve Potts. History. Hibbing Community College. ‘The Seven Phases of The Vietnam Experience.’ Terry Frazier, English, Univ. of N. Carolina; ‘Maneuvers and Minefields: Teaching Vietnam Using Film asText,' D. Melissa Hilbish, American Studies, Univ. of Maryland at College Park; ‘An Oral History of Mainland Regional High School Class of 1966 and the Vietnam War,' Paul Lyons, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Stockton State College; ‘Are We Ugly Americans? Teaching Cultural Understanding of the Vietnam War,' Steve Potts.

To attend the conference you must be a member of either the PCA or ACA ($25) and pay a fee of $50 for regular members, or $ 15. for students, retired, or unemployed persons. Registration at the conference will be an extra $5.00. For more information write Popular Culture Conference, Popular Culture Building, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH 43403.

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R e so u r c e s

The Christopher Reynolds Foundation ,121 East 61 st Street, New York, NV 10021. Jack Clareman, Executive Director: (212) 838-2920. The Christopher Reynolds Foundation will make grants only to those projects that fall within the scope of the Foundation's Interests at the time application Is made for a grant. At present, the focus of the Foundation's Interest Is Southeast Asia, with p a rtid ia r emphasis on humanitarian aid and reconciliation with respect to Vietnam. Cambodia and Loos. The Foundation will not make grants to building funds, medical research, educational or religious Institutions (except In relation to research on subjects that fall within the scope of the Foundatton'scurrent Interests), nor w ill It provide for general operating or overhead expenses (except for newly organized entitles whose objectives fall w ithin the area of the Foundation's current Interests). The foundation does not use a formal grant application form. Proposals should set forth specific objectives, detailed estimated budgets, qualifications of the organizations and Individuals Involved and proof of tax-exempt status under the appropriate provisions of the US Internal Revenue Code. Six copies of the application are required.

ORQANiZATIONS

The Gl Movement Oral History Project. 548 Riverside Drive, Apt. 2C. New York. NY 10027. Skip Delano (212) 749-0169. Interested In 'recruiting and enlisting ' others Into working on the project — Vietnam vets in particular, but Just as Important, some of the high school and college students and teachers who have already done history with vets or would like to do It in the future. The Project does Interviews, focusing on the organized end of political activity In ihe Gl movement (the Gl papers and organizations and civilian support groups) and the movement among Black, Latin and o ther'm ino rity 've ts. For those willing to work with the Project, we will provide some historical background on the Gl movement and some guidelines for conducting interviews.

United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War, 633 Elm . Rm.119. Norman OK 73009. or 309 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. Washington, DC 2003 (202) 543-1505. The University Ok la ho ma chapter of UCAM has established a networking program through which they work to make contact with peace and Justice organizations around the world for the purpose of exchanging Information about their activities. Since December of 1987, they have become affiliated with over a hundred groups at the regional. national, and International levels. The resources they are given by these organizations are available to the entire university community. In this way, they are able to provide a great deal of Information about the arms race and related peace Issues. UCAM Is the only organization working to build an effective campus-based movement to stop the nuclear arms race. UCAM chapters are at work on more than 300 campuses In the US and Canada.

Veterans—Vietnam Restoration Project, 716 Locust St.. PO Box 69. Garbervllle. CA 95440 (707) 923-3357 or 923-3881. Announcing the formation of the Veterans—Vietnam Restoration Project, a non-profit organization emanating from the Garbervllle area of Northern California. The purpose of this new Veterans group Is to return to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and construct a small rural health clinic there. We w ill be sending a team of 12 Vietnam veterans who are carpenters and have other building skills. We wish to return to Vietnam, not as tourists, but as builders as a way of actively waging peace. The purposes of this project are many and Interrelated. The function of building the health clinic Is to personally repair the damage that we have Inflicted on the population. Our secondary function Is to complete a study on Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many Vietnam Era veterans are afflicted with psychological and sociological problems associated with their service in the combat areas during the war. We expect that the act of returning to the war zone w ill be a healing experience for us. There w ill be a Vietnam veteran psychologist traveling and training with us to complete a study on PTSD and Its effects on our twelve team members. We w ill also do a book and a vtdeoprogramforPublicTelevIsion. Our teams will undergo our own psychological screening process with a firm commitment to the principals of non-violence as articulated by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. The Veterans—Vietnam Restoration Project envisions a continuous stream of Veterans returning to Vietnam to complete many projects.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War (An 11-Imperialist), NewYork-New Jersey Chapter, Box A67, West 20th Street, NY 10011. (212)749-0169. In 1986. a group of Vietnam vets established a new antt-Imperlalist organization to work In the New York City area. We called ourselves Vietnam Veterans United to Prevent World War 3. For the past two years we have been active In the antiwar movement, exposing and opposing American aggression at all possible opportunities. We have especially tried to work with young people. In September of 1988 we decided to merge our group with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Anti-Imperialist). There w ill be two groups active In the New York City area, both calling themselves W A W . To help clarify the political differences between the two W A W s, we are distributing a collection of leaflets and articles from the two organizations. The collection was first produced last year by ihe Seattle chapter of W A W (Al) after the national leadership of W A W , Inc. (Chicago) attacked and red-baited W A W (Al) in their publications and In the vets movement. Around the same time, our own newly formed organization. Vietnam Veterans United to Prevent WW 3, came under attack from the coordinators of the New York-New Jersey chapter of W A W , Inc. They wrote a letter and sent It to all antiwar organizations In the region. They warned that we were a 'b o g u s' group and suggested that antiwar groups not work with us or support our activities. We feel It Is time to help sort out the political differences between the two organizations. W A W (Al) is

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open to all veterans who seek to contribute to the antl- lmpertallst vets’ movement. We know that there are differences between organizations and we welcome any discussion and struggle on those differences.

S cHoLars ini j Ue FiEldJohn Andrew, Department of History. Franklin and Marshal College. Lancaster. PA 17604. Currently teaching a course on the Vietnam War, and has taught courses on the 1960s and on the US since 1945. Request for help: Very much Interested in syllabi, etc. from people currently teaching courses on the war In Vietnam and post-1945 American history.

John S. Baky, Bibliographer, Connelly Ubrary. Special Collections. LaSalle Unlv.. Philadelphia. PA 19141. (215) 951-1290. Curator of a collection entitled 'Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam W ar." The collection focuses on prose Action, novels, short stories, poetry, graphic a rt. palnAng .sound .video. Aim .and photography. This is the largest collection of its kind in the world. It is open by appointment at all times free of charge. Presently there are 2500 Items In the collection.

Milton J. Bates. English Department, Marquette Unlv.. Milwaukee. W1 53233. Vietnamveteran.currenttystudytng the social and c J tix a l contexts of Vietnam war literature and Aim.

Uoyd Beecher, History Department, Cal Poty Tech State Unlv.. San Luis Obispo. CA 93401. Historian. US foreign relations; teaches a course called 'The Vietnam War at Home and In Southeast Asia *; on the Board of Directors of 'Healing the W ounds', a touring, multi-media exhibit of California Vietnam era veterans art work.

Bohmer, Peter. The Evergreen State College. SEM 3154. Olympia. WA 98505. Interested In an analysis of political economy of Vietnam today; more generally, economics of Vietnam, Mozambique and Angola. Nicaragua — development In revolutionary societies where war continues. Also Interested In analyses of anti-Vietnam war movement.

Borton, Lady. 12800 Stella Road, MIIIAeld. OH 45761. Author of Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman Among the Boat People o f Vietnam (Doubleday. 1984; available from the author S I 5). Sensing the Enemy was the Inspiration for Laura Jackson's After Our War: How Will Love Speak?, a half-hour public television documentary about six American writers whose work has centered on Vietnam. Lady Is also producer of After Sorrow, a half- hour radio documentary from Vietnam. Two of her essays have been anthologized In Women on War (Simon & Schuster, 1988). Lady Is currently working on Pillars o f Peace, a photo-essay book about a village In northern Vietnam with Bob Nlckelsberg. Time photographer for South Asia. Her other work-in-progress Is After Sorrow, a book about ordinary southern villagers who fought agalnst

the Americans. Lady, who speaks Vietnamese, was and remains the only American writer whom the Vietnamese have allowed to live In a village with a family.

Philip Brown. History Department, UNC Charlotte. Charlotte, NC 28223 (704) 547-4646; 2504 Camden Rod.. Greensboro. NC 27403 (419) 273-2192 (home). East Aslan historian teaching Vietnam from an Asian, rather than American, perspective. Interested In comparative perspectives on traditional rural communities, refugees. Ameraslans. and resettlement.

Frank Burdick. 27 Van Hoesen St., Cortland, NY 13045. Interested In how US m ilitary has evaluated the Vietnam experience. Engaged In a project on combat refusals during Unebocker 2 operations In December 1972. Professor of History at SUNY Cortland.

Larry Cobb, History Department. Oklahoma City Unlv.. OKC. Oklahoma 73106 (405) 521 -5247). Teaching Vietnam War, Vietnam Novel and Film . American Popular Culture (Western Alms, rock and ro ll. TV sports). Served In Vietnam 1969-1970, Captain, Signal Corps: Nha Trang, Phu Lam. BA, Duke Unlv. 1966; Ph.D. Emory Unlv. 1978.

Barbara Cohen, M.D., 1860 El Camlno. Burlingame, CA 94010. Writing a travel guide to Vietnam to be published In Spring of 1988. Request for help: Interested in travellers' experiences In Vietnam for next revision (especially veterans).

David Cortright, Co-Director. SANE/FREEZE, 711 G. St., SE, Washington. DC 20003. Former active duty soldier and activist in the Gl movement. Author of Soldiers In Revolt. Expert on the Gl movement and the m ilitary history of the war. Interested in developing the theme that the US m ilitary collapsed from within, and that the US m ilitary defeat was due to the effectiveness of the Vietnamese political and m ilitary resistance, and Internal opposition here at home.

Richard Currey, c/o Lynn Nesblt. International Creative Management. 40 West 47th St.. New York. NY 10019 (212) 566-5600. Novelist, short story writer, author of Crossing Over: A Vietnam Journal (Pdltzer nominee, now out of print); Fdfo/Ughf(EPDutton/SeymouLawrence),awldety praised prize-wining 'coming home' novel published April 1988 In US, October 1988 In UK, forthcoming In several languages. Author Is available for readings, lectures, workshops.

John Del Vecchlo. 74 Taunton Lake Rd., Newtown, CT 06470. Author of The Thirteenth Valley, which has been printed In 4 languages. To be published In 1989: For the Sake of A ll Living Things. Has spoken at over Afty universities and colleges in the US and UK.

Elder, David, c/o American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry St.. Philadelphia. PA 19144. Helps carry out development projects in Vietnam for the AFSC.

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Thom a* J. Ferguson, 4191 Halupa St.. Honolulu, HI 96818 (808) 423-1478. A Vietnam veteran (1966-1967 with the 25th Inf Dlv) he Is conducting research for a comparative analysis of popviar literature of the Vietnam War and earlier American wars. Recently completed Ph.D. dissertation. 'Am erican Perceptions of the Vietnam War In Popular Literature: An Interpretation by a Professional Sold ier' (Unlv. of Hawaii). The dissertation Is not available through UMI. Major Interest In popular literature, fiction and personal narratives. Has a personal library of about 300novels (out of a bibliographic listing of 500 plus) and 50 personal narratives.

Richard Fllnn. Chair. English Department. Naval Academy Prep School. NETC Newport, Rl 02841.

Samuel Freeman. Political Science Dept., Pan American Unlv..Edinburg.TX 78539. Presently making a comparative analysis of US foreign policy In Vietnam/Southeast Asia and Central America, with specific focus on El Salvador and Nicaragua.

Jerry Gold, PO Box 95676. Seattle. WA 98145. Served In Special Forces 1963-1966. in Vietnam 1965-1966. Education: BA. MA Unlv. of Montana; Ph.D. Unlv. of Washington. Educated In history and anthropology, currently employed by US Census In Seattle. Publisher of Black Heron Press, a small literary press. Author of The Negligence of Death. O f Great Spaces, and several stories published In small magazines. Ongoing interests: poverty, social dislocation, war and Its effects, literature.

Ronald J. Grele. Box 20. Butler Ubrary. Columbia Unlv.. New York. NY 10027. Director of the Oral History Research Office.

Bryan K. Grigsby. 28 Jade Lane. Cherry Hill. NJ 08002. US Army Photographer 1967-1970 (Dept, of Army Special Photo Office, DASPO). Currently Photo/Assignments Editor of Philadelphia Inquirer. South New Jersey edition. BS in Broadcasting from Unlv. of Florida (1971). Has continued to photograph Vietnam-related events over the past twenty years for a personal project.

Hanh Thl Pham, 1285 W. Cheshire St.. Rialto. CA 92376. A Saigon bom artist, working now on East and West totalitarianism and the exile experience of cultural adaptattonand resistance. Artmedia: photography and painted Installation; video of performed poems.

Larry G. Marred and David Fumlss. English Department. Unlv. of W isconsin—River Falls. River Falls. Wl 54022.

Mark Heberie, Dept, of English, Unlv. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. HI 96821. Currently working on the Vietnam 'D a rkness' trilogy of Takeshi Kalko. Request for Help: W o iid appreciate Information about Kalko or his work, as well as other Japanese representations of the war.

Jeffrey P. Kimball. History Department, Miami Unlv.. Oxford OH 45056. Teaches courses called 'The US—Vietnam W ar;' *US Foreign Policy;' 'Am erican Way of W ar;' and, 'A lternatives to W ar." Has written a book on Vietnam called To Reason Why: The Debate about the Causes of US Involvement In the Vietnam War (New York: Knopf) forthcoming, August 1989.

Michael Klein, English. Media & American Studies. Unlv. of Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road. Newtonabbey, Co. Antrim, BT 370WB. Northern Ireland. UK. Areas of interest: Vletnam-era antiwar protest; film; education; literature. Book: The US and Vietnam: Popular Culture and Society (London: Pluto). Articles In Dumbrell and Walsh, Vietnam andthe Anti-War Movement!, London: Gower) and Riches, The Turbulent Decade. Coordinating Committee, Rutgers Unlv. Vietnam Era Curriculum Project and the Unlv. of Swansea Vietnam Era Conference. Also. In 1965. a founder of the Berkeley Vietnam Day Committee and film production team (direction, script, editing) of Vietnam Day Berkeley 1965. Three Vietnam Era Poets; Vietnam Vets Speak Out.

Ann® Klejment. History Department. Box 4188. College of St. Thomas. St. Paul. MN 55105. Working on the antiwar thought and activities of Daniel and Philip Berrlgan. Also studying the spirituality of pacifism in the Catholic Worker movement.

David Kuobrich, American Studies Program. George Mason Unlv., Fairfax. VA 22030. Research project: Response of American churches to the Vietnam War.

Judy Kugobrass, Field and International Study, College of Human Ecology,Cornell Unlv.,Ithaca.NY 14853. Involved In research and support for Southeast Aslan refugee communities. Visited Vietnam and Kampuchea with the US-Indochlna Reconciliation Project in August, 1988.

Andrew F. Lewandowskl, Berks County Vietnam Memorial Com m ission,Inc..PO Box4222.M t.Penn.PA 19606. Trying to locate anyone who served with Kilo, 34d Br., 4th Marine Reg., 3rd Mar. Dlv. In 1968 (April through September) and who served with Alpha Co. or 1st Co.. 3rd Combined Action Group (especially CAP—3-1.6).

Edward T. Unenthal. Dept, of Religious Studies, Unlv. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Oshkosh, Wl 54901. Teaches a course on 'Relig ion and the Impact of Vietnam.* Author of Changing Images o f the W arrior Hero In America (1982); Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Significance o f the Strategic Defense Initiative (Illinois. 1989), and currently at work on Reservoirs o f Spiritual Power: The Cultural Functions o f American Battlefields.

James C. Utz, 1724 Como-Park Blvd.. Depew, NY 14043 (716) 681-6776. Served In Vietnam In the First Air Cavalry Infantry unit in 1968. Began a painting career In 1981 .and Is today ranked with the best contemporary Primitive- Naive artists.

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Pilar Marin, Avda. de la Borbolla 73, Seville, Spain 41013. Is Interested collecting descriptions of works-lrvprogress and notices of upcoming events and conferences.

Leah Melnlck, Box 766 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002, (413) 549-0676. Has been photographing, writing about and collecting oral histories of Khmer refugees In Bronx, New York and Amherst, Massachusetts, In an attempt to photographically compare resettlement experiences In two diverse community environments. Combines photography with volunteer social service work in order to dlrectty address the humanitarian concerns that Initiated the documentary. Through photographs, she hopes to create a historical and education record of the experiences of a community of holocaust survivors from the Pol Pot regime In Cambodia and the process of rebuilding their Hves In the United States. To work for peace and Increase public awareness and concern for the prevention of war. It Is Important to understand and become sensitive to the people living In our own neighborhoods and communities who have been damaged by war. These photos powerfully communicate this experience while bringing the Issue closer to home by examining how Khmers are rebuilding and healing spiritually, cultura lly. and personally In the US. Her work has been published in Ufe, Dissent. New York Daily News. New York Nichlbel. USA Today and The Permanent Press. The project has received several awards and has been exhibited In New York and Massachusetts.

Michael Milne, National Commander, Veterans of the Vietnam War, Inc,, 2090 Bald Mt. Rd., Wilkes-BarTe. PA 18702-9609. W N W Is a national veterans organization which works on Issues such as Agent Orange. POW-MIAs, Job counseling, and PTSD. There are approximately 125 posts.

Joan Morrison, 64 Spring Brook Rd., Morristown, NJ 07960. Co-Author of From Camelotto Kent State: An Oral History o f the 796Qs(TlmesBooks. 1987). Teaches a course on the 1960s at The New School for Social Research In New York City. She and her co-author, Robert K. Morrison, have lectured on the subject and given readings from the book at a number of colleges and universities.

Novelll, Martin, Faculty for Humanities, Unlv. of the Arts, Broad and Pine Sts., Philadelphia, PA 19102. Teaches an Interdisciplinary course titled 'Im ages of Vietnam*. Has participated in a Vietnam curriculum development project at Rutgers Unlv., and has written a chapter on Vietnam war film s for US and Vietnam: Popular Culture and Media. which w ill be published In London In 1989.

Oscar Patterson III, 3459 Brushy Hill Road, Fayetteville, NC 28306. Interested In all aspects of the Vietnam War. Ph.D. dissertation dealt with media coverage of war. Recent research Into drug problems among dependents of US personnel In Thailand. Serves as editor of the Amerlcal Division Veterans Association Newsletter.

Dennis Rockstroh, 3573 Tankeriand Court, San Jose, CA 95121. Journalist for the San Jose-M ercuy News. Teaches English. Journalism, and the history of the American war In Vietnam. He served in the US Army In Vietnam from 1964- 1965, was a teacher and Journalist in Vietnam from 1967 to 1971, and returned to Vietnam In 1987 and 1988.

Chaim Shatan, M.D., 415 Central Park W., New York City 10025 (212) 865-9482. or Box 1752, Lenox. MA 01240 (413) 298-3038. Has worked with World War 2 veterans, and with Vietnam combat veterans as a Rap Group organizer, therapist and writer. Formed Vietnam Vets Working Group to prepare formulations on what was later called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for DSM 3. Particular Interests are: the Impact of man-made cruelty (stress) on human beings, the dimorphic emotional development promoted In men and women In most of Western civilization, the nature of manhood; and the psychology of combat — as exemplified In war, literature, and clinical work. Sample bibliography available, Include 'Bogus Manhood, Bogus Honor: Surrender & Transfiguration In the US Marine Corps.* 'Through the Membrane of Reality: 'Impacted Grief' and Perceptual Dissonance in the Vietnam Combat Veteran," 'M ilitarized Mourning & Ceremonial Vengeance," 'The John Wayne Image & the Language of Grief: Happiness Is a Warm Gun," 'Uvlng in a Split Time Zone: Trauma 8t Therapy of Vietnam Combat Survivors." 'Have You Hugged a Vietnam Veteran Today? The Basic Wound of Catastrophic Stress".

Richard Sobel, Department of Political Science, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268. Working on the Impact of public opinion and protest on US policy during the Vietnam War.

Jerold StarT. 115 Mayfair Dr.. Pittsburgh. PA 15228, (412) 341-1967. Director of the Center for Social Studies Education. Organizing a nation-wide campaign to promote teaching of the Vietnam War In secondary schools and colleges. This includes Its 1988 publication. The Lessons of the Vietnam War: A Modular Textbook, and Its program. Teaching the Vietnam War: A Teacher- Veteran Partnership. In collaboration with Vietnam Veterans of America and Educators fo r Social Responsibility.

Matthew C. Stewart, Humanities, College of Basic Studies. Boston Untv., Boston, MA 02215. Dissertation on novels and prose works, esp. Dispatches. In Country. Meditations In Green. Short-Tim ers. Cacclato. Examines the particularities of different styles and aesthetics as efforts to make sense of Vietnam. Title: Making Sense o f Chaos: Prose Writing. Fictional Kind and the Reality o f Vietnam. Currently at work on the language of brutalization and dehumanization. Enjoy Interdisciplinary approaches.

Amy Swerdlow, Women's Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. Bronxvllle. NY 10708. Teaching a course on the US In the 1960s. Writing a book on Women Strike for Peace called The Political Motherhood: Female Culture and Radical Politics.

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Barbara Timmons. UMI Research Press. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor. Ml 48106. (800) 345-9084 or (313) 973-9821 x. 758. Editing a new series called Challenging the Literary Canon for UMI Press.

Dr. John E. Trlmpey, Humanities and American Studies. Carriage House B, Untv. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN 37403. Travelled to Vietnam over Christmas. Has established working relationships with some Vietnamese scholars — exchanging books, reports, journals, etc. Is happy to share with anyone, and recommend contact to verify what came of the trip. He 's Interested In anything official from any government concerning the US-Vietnam relationship, during the war era and now.

David A. Willson, Green River Community College. 12401 SE 320th St.. Auburn. WA 98002 (206) 833-9111 x.408. Vietnam veteran, author of REMF Diary: A Novel o f the Vietnam War Zone. Currently teaching a course, “The Vietnam War and the M edia.' As reference librarian, he Is building a collection called The Joe Hooper Vietnam War Uterature Collection. He Is organizer of the annual Vietnam War W riters Symposium at GRCC. Work In progress: 'Nam Porno." a paper to be presented at the PCA conference In St. Louis, MO, April 5-8.1989. Request for help: Any Information on pornography using the Vietnam War as context or backdrop.

Wlmmer. Adi, English & American Studies, University of Klagenfurt.Klagenfurt.Austrla A-9022. Currently engaged in research on the effectsof the Vietnam War on American literature and culture. He also teaches courses on Vietnam War poetry and Vietnam War film s at the University of (Oagenfurt.

Books ANd Audio Ma t e r IaIs C urren tly In P r Int

This special section will be featured at least once a year. Because it is so difficult for everyone to keep up to date on the large amount of material currently available in the field, we have compiled a list of publishers and distributors of relevant works, and given mailing addresses, ordering information and prices whenever we have them. Not all of these works deal directly with the Vietnam generation. Some of them, like the works on the Holocaust, are useful for those interested In comparative studies. Capsule reviews are included under the entries for some of these works. All those not labelled *(VG)' are provided by the promoters of these products. If you have information which belongs in this column, please send it along to us. We will return to our regular book reviews in the next issue. (Film will be reviewed in a seperate filmography - forthcoming.)

American Audio Pros® Library, PO Box 842. Columbia, MO 65205.

Has recorded interviews and readings by various contemporary American literary figures. Including a number of authors of Vietnam literature. These cassettes are Inexpensive, and Invaluable resources. Their catalogue Includes Interviews with, and readings by. Philip Caputo, Larry Heinemann. Huynh Quang Nhuong, Robert Stone, Diane Johnson, Bobbie Arm Mason, Carolyn Forch6, Gloria Emerson, and Ward Just. (VG)

Aspen Institute, Wye Center. PO Box 222. Queenstown. MD 21658.

Indochina Policy Forum, Recommendations for the New Administration on United States Policy Toward Indochina. 1988 .

Atlantic Monthly Press, 19 Unton Square West, New York, NY 10003.

Adams. James. Secret Armies: Inside the American. Soviet, and European Special Forces. 1987 ($19.95),ISBN 0-87113-223-0. Ada ms. the Defense Correspondent for The Sunday Times of London, offers an Inside took at such secret military organizations as the ISA and the Delta Force in the US; the Spetsnaz forces of the USSR; and the SAS in Great Britain, and shows how these 'secret arm ies" have been Involved in nearly every case of sustained armed conflict around the globe since World War 2. Adams portrays US Special Forces as lagging far behind those of other countries. He gives a detailed evaluation of Grenada, showing that this action was a complete disaster. In which every one of the tasks given to the US Special Forces to perform either failed with heavy toss of life or succeeded by accident.

W elgl, Bruce. Song of Napalm. 1988 ($13.95). ISBN 0- 871134-241-9. The Nation has called W eigl's poems 'som e of the finest In our language." In this collection Weigl gives us an Indelible record of Vietnam, of the aching beauty of the jungle Juxtaposed with the repulsiveness of war. of society's collective battle scars that can never heal. The poems collected here represent an unfolding of consciousness about the Vietnam War. W eig l's poems are an extraordinary testament to ordinary people experiencing hell on earth. (His title poem, 'Song of Napalm." Is one of the strongest and most moving literary works about the war. (VG))

Avon Books. 105 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016Barron, John, Breaking the Ring: The Rise and Fan o f

the Walker Family Spy Network. 1987 ($3.95), ISBN 0-380-70520-6.

Hadley. Arthur T.. The Straw Giant: Am erica's Armed Forces: Triumphs and Failures. 1987 ($ 10.95), ISBN 0-380-70391-2.

Ballinger Press, a division of Harper and Row, 54 Church St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge, MA 02138-3730.

Riche Ison. Jeffrey 1.. The US Intelligence Community.

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1985 ($16.95). ISBN 0-88730-025-1. and Foreign Intelligence Organizations. 1988 ($16.95), ISBN 0- 88730-122-3.

Basic Books, 105 E 53rd St.. New York. NY 10022Me Quad. Kim, The Anxious Years: America In the

Vletnam-Watergate Era. 1989 ($19.95), ISBN 0- 465-00389-3. A history that confronts the Institutional fa ilures, political evasions and constitutional crises of the 1960s and 1970s, and shows that Tet, Chicago, and Watergate are the landmarks of a single military and political disaster. Vietnam was the hinge on which everything else swung.according to McQuald. McQuaid points out that N ixonltes concocted Watergate specifically to punish both real and Imagined enemies In and outside of the Democratic Party, In and outside of the antiwar movement, whom Nixon blamed for the debacle of Vietnam as well as for his own periodic humiliations in American politics.

Black Heron Press, PO Box 95676, Seattle, WA 98145.Gold. Jerome. The Negligence o f Death. 1984 ($7.95).

ISBN 0-930773-00-4.Willson. David. REMF Diary. 1988 ($8.95), ISBN 0-930773-

06-3.Bowling Green State Unlv. Popular Press, Bowling Green,OH 43403.

Anlsfield. Nancy (ed.), Vietnam Anthology: American War Literature. 1987 ($11.95), ISBN 0-87972-396-3. Geared to classes dealing with the Vietnam War or Vietnam War literature In a short unit. (VG)

Searle. W illiam J.. (ed.). Search and Clear: Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films o f the Vietnam War. 1988, ISBN 0-87972-429-3. Critical anthology containing essays by a group of writers who w ill be familiar to those In the Popular Culture circuit. (VG)

Cambridgeport Press, 14 Chalk St., Cambridge, MA 02139.Whlttemore, Thomas, The Vietnam War: A Text for

Students. 1988 ($10.75), ISBN 0-944348-00-9. This text is a sim plistic and reductive summary of the war geared toward the Junior high level A major problem Is Its complete lack of bibliographic notations, and Its tendency to narrate, rather than to explore, the historic events of the era. Political tendencies a n from the lukewarm liberal to the downright conservative, and It carefully caters to the current social and political climate: '(D )rugs became a major symbol of the youth revolt. Marijuana and LSD were the most popular drugs, and their use spread from the more wocked-out (sic) rebels Into middle class America. Uttle about the harmful effects of these drugs was then recognized, with many young people believing that their parents' main drug, alcohol, was far more dangerous. Besides, not everyone claimed to care. The Who summed up the mood of many young people wtth their lyrics. “Hope I die before I get o ld " (p.85). (VG)

Cornell Unlv. Press. 124 Roberts PI., Ithaca. NY 14850.

Evangelista, Matthew. Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New M ilitary Technologies. 1988, ISBN 0- 8014-1958-1. Evangelista contends that the US usually leads In Introducing new m ilitary technology, while the Soviets must typically react to American Initiatives. He develops a framework employing the theoretical Insights of political economy. economics,and organizational theory. He concludes that the processes of weapons Innovation In the two nations differ fundamentally: In the US Impetus for Innovation comes 'from the bottom," at the Initiative of corporate or government researchers and m ilitary officials, whereas the centralized Soviet system processes Innovations "from the top* In response to foreign developments. Evangelista presents a detailed study of the pivotal American and Soviet decisions to develop tactical nuclear weaponsand deploy them In Europe In the 1950s.

Huyen Kim Khdn. Vietnamese Communism. 1925- 1945.1982, ISBN 0-8014-9397-8. The author traces the Vietnamese Communist movement from its Inception In 1925 to Its victory In 1945.

Rotter, Andrew, The Path to Vietnam: Origins o f the American Commitment to Southeast Asia. 1987, ISBN 0-8014-1958-1. Rotter places the US decision to assist Vietnam in the context of American foreign policy, looking In particular at the dilemmas facing US policymakers In 1949. He asserts that the policymakers, concerned about the victory of the Communists in China, the persistent economic difficulties of Japan and Great Britain, and the fragmentation of Western Europe, sought to revive Southeast Asia economically and to Inoculate It against Communist expansion as part of a broader American effort to reconstruct the global political economy following World War 2. By the time the Korean War broke out in June 1950, Rotter concludes, the US had In place sophisticated policy designed not only to support and defend colonialism in Southeast Asia but also to ensure the recovery of the developed. non-Communlst world.

CQ Pres*, 1414 22nd St. NW. Washington. DC 200376.Lomperts.Timothy. The War Everyone Lost—And Won,

1984, ISBN 0-87187-409-1. Lomperts examines the struggle for political power In Vietnam as a conflict fought on two distinct levels for two separate audiences—one Vietnamese and the other global. In Vietnam, It was a 45-year contest for p o litica l legitim acy between Vietnam ese Nationalists and Communists. Internationally. It was a duel between America's foreign policy of containment and the Communist strategy of Maoist people's war.

Delacorte Press, a division of Bantam Doubleday DellPublishing Group, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. New York,NY 10017.

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Allen, Thomas B., & Norman Polmar. Merchants of Treason: Am erica's Secrets for Sale from the Pueblo to the Present. 1988 ($19.95). ISBN 0-385- 29591-X. An adamantly Cold War volume dedicated to proving that ‘our nation's most secret materials are being sold at an espionage bazaar where the Soviets are the most frequent and generous buyers". TomClancy'senthusiastic endorsement of the book (* ...should be required reodlng for every security officer In the United Sta tes') signals quite clearly the authors' pro-CIA stance. (VG)

Mahoney. Tim. W e're Not There. 1988 ($7.95). ISBN 0- 440-55004-1. A second novel by the author of Halloran's World War. The press release states that this novel * Is the story of what happens when generals push pins on a map as though It were a game."

Dell Books, 1 Dag Hammarskjold PI., New York. NY 10017Nolan, Keith W illiam . Into Laos: The Story o f Dewey

Canyon 2/Lam Son 719. Vietnam 1971. 1986 ($4.95). ISBN 0-440-20044-X.

O 'Brien, Tim . If I Die In a Combat Zone. 1973 ($4.50), ISBN 0-440-34311-9. The classic autobiography has been reissued. 1 understand that Dell will publish a second revised version of O 'Brien's Going After Cacciato later this year. (VG)

Donald I Fine, Inc., 128 East 36th St.. New York. NY 10016.Bradlee. Ben Jr., Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fa ll o f

Oliver North. 1988 ($21.95). ISBN 1-55611-053-7. According to the press release. Bradlee focuses on ‘Oliver North and his direct and Indirect Involvement In US foreign policy and operations and the acts that led to his dism issal from the W hite House...and. ultim ately, the recent Indictments against him handed down by the grand ju ry." Because of the depressing turn of events In the Iran-Contra prosecutions, readers might be too dispirited to plow their way through the 550+ pages of this well-researched pop culture cash-ln. (VG)

Mltgang. Herbert. Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against Am erica's Greatest Authors, 1988 ($ 18.95). ISBN 1 -55611 -077-4. A very fine and unusual book which explores the pattern of FBI surveillance of American writers. Mltgang does a good job of pointing out the ridiculousness of most of the ‘ Intelligence" gathered on these writers, and the unpleasant Implications of secret files maintained by a government agency.

EP Dutton, 2 Park Avenue. New York, NY 10016.Currey, Richard. Fatal Light. 1988 ($16.95). ISBN 0-

525-24622-3. First novel by this Vietnam veteran author. Many people have good things to say about Currey's book. Including Tim O 'Brien

GP Putnam's Sons, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016.Emerson, Steve, Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert

M ilitary Operations o f the Reagan Era. 1988 ($17.95). ISBN 0-399-13360-7. Based on Steven Em erson'saccesstourpublished documents and hundreds of Interviews with Intelligence agents

and officials from the Pentagon. CIA, NSC, NSA, White House. Justice [department and State Department, this Is the story of how the Pentagon, disgusted at the failure of the 1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt, decided It could no longer trust the capabilities of the CIA and Instead set up a ‘miniature C IA ' within Its own walls. (Seymour Hersh wrote a review praising this book. (VG))

George Brazlller, 1 Park Ave.. New York. NY 10016Carter, Hoddlng. The Reagan Years. 1988 ($17.50).

ISBN 0-8076-1209-X. Grouped thematically and Introduced by the author, these essays form a journal of American life over the past 8 years. They are not lim ited to critiques of the president and his men. The long-term effects of Reaganomics on the poor, the status of blacks after Jesse Jackson, and the current state of the media are among the topics he also examines.

Glosser. Ronald. 365 Days. 1971 ($7.95), ISBN 0-8076- 0995-1. Reissueofthe classic narrative of a doctor stationed in Japan, who worked with Americans wounded in Vietnam.

Greenwood/Praeger, 88 Post Road West. Westport, CT 06881.

Auster, Albert, & Leonard Quart, How the War was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam. 1988, ISBN 0-275-92479-3. An Intelligent and acute analysis of the Vietnam film and the Hollywood scene. Don't miss it If this is your area. (VG)

Basford. Christopher, The Spit-Shine Syndrome: Organizational Irrationality In the American Field Army. 1988. ISBN 0-313-26215-2. Analysis of Army organization by a 33-year m ilitary man.

Cecil. Paul Frederick, Herblcldal Warfare: The Ranch Hand Project In Vietnam. 1986 ($29.95). ISBN 0- 275-92007-0. This is the history of the herbicidal operation—code named Ranch Hand—In Vietnam. It describes how the operation dispensed over 11 million gallons of chemicals over Southeast Asian jungles and croplands. Based on the author's experiences, hundreds of Interviews with Ranch Hand veterans, and research of primary sources, this book provides a view of the men who flew the missions. It also reviews the scientific reaction to herbicidal warfare and how the controversy that ensued eventually caused the cancellation of the operation. Cecil views chemical herbicides as viable, useful weapons in conflicts Involving a guerrilla environment, while also citing justifiable criticism of several elements of the program as It was practiced In Vietnam.

Dietz, Terry, Republicans and Vetnam. 1961-1966. 1986 ($29.95). ISBN 0-313-24892-3. D ietz's book portrays Republicans as ‘the loyal opposition to the conduct of the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1968." Dividing his discussion Into two main areas of concentration, Dietz first discusses how the Republican Congressional leadership responded to American foreign policy vis-a-vis the expansion

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of communism, as well as a general review of the Republican position towards communism since 1945. A central theme is the Republican support of the philosophical goals of American foreign policy In Vietnam but rejection of Johnson's gradual and Incremental m ilitary strategy for achieving them. Dietz emphasizes that the Republican leadership labored diligently to create constructive alternatives to Administration policy.

Grlnter, Lawrence, & Peter M. Dum (eds.). The American War In Vietnam: Lessons. Legacies, and Implications fo rFu tire Conflicts. 1987 ($37.95), ISBN 0-313-25729-0. According to the promotional literature: ‘The essays In this collection were assembled to provide answers to the question of why the policies and strategies of the US failed In Vietnam. They examine four major factors that affected US conduct: how the war was perceived, how It was fought, the possible effect of alternative strategies, and the legacy for future warfare. The contributors Include both m ilitary officers and scholars, all but one of whom participated In the Vietnam War. All the authors reflect the more tempered nature of current Vietnam War scholarship.' Most of the essayists were present at the Indochina Institute Conference on Teaching the War last February (Washington, DC). If you are familiar with that particular crowd, you will not waste time looking for left wing analyses in this particular collection. (VG)

Lewis, Uoyd B., The Tainted War: Culture and Identity In Vietnam War Narratives. 1985 ($27.95), ISBN 0- 313-23723-9. Lewis analyzes the processes through which social reality Is constructed and subjectively appropriated by Individuals. He attempts to demonstrate how a war in Southeast Asia became a young m an's reality, how Americans found themselves compelled to scrap the cultural knowledge they had been taught, how an Individual went from civilian to combat soldier and back again and was flung into a cultural twilight zone. To reconstruct their world view, Lewis dips Into the minds of the young men who witnessed It first hand. As they tell their stories, he fo cuses on the so c lo -p syc ho lo g lc a l consequences of their experiences.

MacDonald, J . Fred, Television and the Red Menace: The Video Road to Vietnam. 1985 ($ 15.95), ISBN 0- 275-91807-6. Using a broad range of examples from news broadcasts, public affairs, and entertainment programming (Westerns and cartoons among them), J. Fred MacDonald concludes that television helped to create a complacent public that did not question the governmental policies that led the country Into Vietnam.

Mayo, James M., War Memorials as Political Landscape, 1988, ISBN 0-275-92812-8. Reviewed

In the first Issue of the Newsletter.Olson, James S. (ed.). Dictionary o f the Vietnam War,

1988 ($65.). ISBN 0-313-24943-1. Includes more than 900 brief descrlpttve essays on most of the people—political and military leaders as well as antiwar activists, legislation, military operations and equipment, and controversies essential to a b ette r understa nd ing o f the Am erican participation In the Vietnam War. References at the end of each entry provide access to sources of additional Information. 5 appendixes are Included, focusing on a description of the population of South Vietnam, the minority groups of South Vietnam, a glossary of slang expressions and acronyms, a selected bibliography of the Vietnam War, and a chronology.

Harper & Row, 10 East 53rd St.. New York. NY 10022.Caute, David, The Year o f the Barricades: A Journey

through 1968. 1988 ($24.95). ISBN 0-06-105870-0. The tone of the book issummed up In the following excerpt from the Introduction: "They marched, dem onstrated, occupied universities, and courted police repression...What were they— courageous visionaries or romantic Utopians? Genuine revolutionaries or posturing spoiled brats? An authentic resistance movement or a frivolous carnival by kids who had never known poverty and the fear of unemployment? An Idealistic challenge to Imperialism ora pantomime of rhetorical gestures? A rebirth of the critical Intelligence or a long, drugged 'trip ' Into fashionable incoherence? This book alms to provide a history that w ill yield tentative answers to these questions." The best thing about this book is Its International approach to an understanding of the year. (VG)

Morris, Charles R., Iron Destinies. Lost O pportinlties: The Arms Race Between the USA and the USSR. 1988 ($22.95). ISBN 0-06-039082-4.

Salisbury, Harrison E..AUm e of Change: AReporter's Tale of Our Time. 1988 ($19.95), ISBN 0-06039083- 2. Reviewed In the first Issue of the Newsletter.

Harvard Unlv. Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138.Weart, Spencer R„ Nuclear Fear: A History o f Images.

1988 ($29.50), ISBN 0-674-62835-7. The Imagery of nuclear bombs and reactors did not spread by Itself; It was promoted by parflcJar people for their own purposes. Drawing on materials ranging from one e-secret government documents to comic books, from technical articles to works of art, Weart tells the story of how and why a special set of images came to represent what everyone ‘knows' —or feels—about nuclear devices.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovlch, 111 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10003.

Knox, Donald, The Korean War: F\jsan to Chosin, 1985 ($10.95), ISBN 0-15-647200-7. Drawing on his Interviews with hundreds of veterans of Korea— from riflemen to commanding officers—Knox

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weaves personal stories with regimental records and ships’ logs to crate a day-by-day chronicle of the w ar's first months of fighting: June to December, 1950.

Hill 4 Wang, 10 Union Sq. W, New York, NY 10003.Scheer. Robert, Thinking Tuna Fish. Talking Death:

Essays on the Pornography o f Power, ~\ 958 9.95).ISBN 0-8090-9316-2. Gathers together 21 of Scheer's essays and articles. Including his controversial profile of the Jews of Los Angeles, his Interview with Orlana Fallacl, and his examination of Gorbachev and the new Soviet elite. The title of the book Is taken from a piece that describes a gathering of nuclear eggheads at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory In California. Scheer listens to (and fa ith fu lly records) participants munching on tu x i fish sandwiches while thoughtfully discussing the pros and cons of nuclear ‘city busting." The exercise of power, Scheer finds. Is frequently pornographic.

Holmes 4 Meier, 30 Irving PL, New York, NY 10003.Lang, Berel (ed.). Writing and the Holocaust. 1988

(S 19.95), ISBN 0-8419-1185-1. Collection of essays by the finest critics of Holocaust literature. Extrem ely usefu l fo r those Interested In comparative examination of Vietnam war literature.

Howard Unlv. Press, 2900 Van Ness St. NW, Washington, DC 20008.

Davis. George, Coming Home 1971 ($6.95), ISBN 0- 88258-118-X. A well-deserved reissue of one of the few black novels about Vietnam. Make sure you buy a copy this time around. (VG)

Indiana Unlv. Press, 10th & Morton Sts., Bloomington, IN 47405.

Avisar, llan. Screening the Holocaust: Cinema's Images o f the Unimaginable. 1988. ISBN 0-253- 20475-5. This Is a fine book to use for building a comparative methodology between Holocaust and Vietnam war films. (VG)

Johnson, Charles. Being & Race: Black Writing Since 1970.1988 ($15.95), ISBN0-253-31165-9.

Rosenfeld, Alvin H., A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature. 1980, ISBN 0-253-20492-5. One of the strongest works on Holocaust I Itera lu re . (VG)

Young, Ja mes E.. Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: N a rra tive and the C onsequences o f Interpretation. 1988, ISBN 0-253-36716-6. Has great bearing on the reading and Interpretation of Vietnam War narratives by combat veterans. (VG)

Ivy Books/Ballantine, a division of Random House. New York. NY 10022.

Clark. Johnnie M.. Guns Upl. 1984 ($3.50), ISBN 0-345- 31507-3. Personal narrative by a disabled Marine veteran.

Lannlng. Michael Lee. The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Jouna l o f Vietnam, 1987 ($3.50). ISBN 0-8041-0005-5 and Vietnam. 1969-1970: A

Company Commander's Journal. 1988 ($3.95). ISBN 0-8041-0187-6. Autobiographical volumes by a career officer in the US Army.

Johns Hopkins Unlv. Press, 701 W 40th St., Suite 275.Baltimore. MD 21211.

Krepinevich, Andrew F. Jr., The Army and Vietnam. 1986. ISBN 0-8018-3657-3. Intelligent and Interesting analysis of the principles which guided the US Arm y's actions in the Vietnam War. Krepinevich claims that the Arm y's failure In Vietnam is directly linked to its inability to visualize warfare in any terms other than the "Army Concept' — the belief that the mid-intensity war (such as World War 2 and Korea) Is the most Important war to prepare for and to conduct. The counterinsurgency stra te g ie s w hich Krepinevich promotes are familiar: Isolating the population from guerrilla infiltration and retaliation and a policy which convinces the population that support of the current regime is to their b ene fit. In a d d itio n , the suc c e ssfu l counterinsurgency must utilize local paramilitary groups, and ensure that government troops are concentrated on "asserted government control over the population and winning its support.' Krepinevich takes issue with those (such as Richard Nixon, William Westmoreland, and Harry Summers) who assert that the Vietnam War could have been won If only the American Congress and people had backed the war strongly enough, providing enough money, troops, and firepower. The most striking absence In this book is any attempt at moral judgement on the war, or on counterinsurgency wars In general. Though the arguments In this book lead strongly to the conclusion that counterinsurgency warfare can be successfully fought, the ethical problems of fighting a war against a popular resistance movement are never dealt with. If the population believed In the guerrilla cause. Kreplnevich's strategy would Inevitably fa il unless the conquering force practiced the strongest form of repression, keeping the people under literal lock and key In the strongest form of m ilitary dictatorship. Perhaps, In an attempt to avoid this sticky point, Krepinevich chose to deal only with Vietnam, and not to draw conclusions from American m ilitary and m ilitary support policy In El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. (VG)

Lawrence E riba urn, Inc., 365 Broadway, Suite 102. Hillsdale.NJ 07642.

Boulanger. Ghlslalne & Charles Kadushln, The Vietnam Veteran Redefined: Fact and Fiction. 1986, ISBN 0-89859-761 -7. Anthology of psychiatric and social science articles on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and readjustment.

Little Sun, PO Box 1850. Monrovia, CA 91016.Scaff. W illiam, Bong Son Blues. 1969. An unusual

audio cassette, recorded In and around Bong Son, Northern Binh Dlnh Province, Republic of

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Vietnam. 1969. on a Sony portable cassette recorder. The quality of these recordings Is not good, and It Is frequently difficult to distinguish one cut from another, but some of the material Is fascinating. Scoff has recorded Malaysian mercenaries. ARVN soldiers. Vietnamese children, and samples of Aslan radio programming. The best segment on the tape, however. Is a rambling rap titled 'The Mother Fucker (Joe Blow, the Kokom o)'. Listen to It, and then re-read the section In Hasford's The Short-Timers where Joker attempts to tell the squad a funny story. (VG)

Uttte, Brown, 34 Beacon St.. Boston, MA 02108-9990.Boettcher. Thomas. Vietnam: The Valor and the

Sorrow. 1985 ($16.95), ISBN 0-316-10081-1. Boettcher contends that rather than getting us Into Vietnam, the m ilitary tried to keep us out. They knew, he asserts, better than Kennedy's Harvard educated, self-styled m ilitary strategists from the civilian sector, what the obstacles were. and how unprepared we were for the kind of war we would have to fight there. Boettcher distinguishes between the lessons the US intended to teach In Vietnam and those we were forced to learn about wars of national liberation. (A rather novel approach to m ilitary apologia. (VG))

Dye, Dale. Outrage: A Novel o f Beirut. 1988 ($17.95), ISBN 0-316-20010-7. A book In the worst of the de Borchegrave. Moss, and Clancy disinformation tradition. Read It and weep. (VG)

Goodwin, Richard N., Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties. 1988 ($19.95), ISBN 0316- 32024-2. A Kennedy staff member from 1959, Goodwin was among the very few Kennedy men Invited by Lyndon Johnson to Join his circle of advisers. After leaving the White House at the end of 1965, Goodwin developed a personal and political association with Robert Kennedy. He joined Eugene McCarthy In New Hampshire In his campaign for an end to the Vietnam War after breaking with the administration on the Issue. When Johnson withdrew from the primary race. Goodwin rejoined Kennedy fo r his campaign.

Kunhardt, Philip B. (ed,).Ufe ln Cameiot: The Kennedy Years. 1988 ($40). ISBN 0-316-21089-7. Opening wide hlsdoors to Life Magazine. Kennedy allowed an extraordinary picture history to be made of his years In Washington. This book Includes more than 500 photographs—over 150 of them previously unpublished.

ME Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Dr., Armonk, NY 10504.Ablin, David & Marlowe Hood (eds.). The Cambodian

Agony. 1987 ($35.). ISBN 0-87332-399-8. Scholars address the major Issues facing Cambodia and the politics of Indochina since the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime In 1978.

Frey-Wouters, Ellen & Robert S. Laufer, Legacy o f a War: The American Soldier In Vietnam. 1986 ($32.50). ISBN 087332-354-8. Based on over 1200

Interviews with men of the Vietnam Generation, this book examines the social, psychological, and political effects of the war. The interviews reveal an enduring Influence of the war on Vietnam veterans, especially those exposed to the killing, dying, and brutality of warfare. The analysis shows that the war Is perceived by a substantial majority. Including a plurality of Vietnam veterans as a grave mistake. Vietnam veterans as well as their peers generally see a need for legal constraints on the conduct of future wars, and a solid majority of the Vietnam veterans say they oppose future Interventions like Vietnam.

Macmillan Publishers, 866 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022.Cagin. Seth & Philip Dray, We Are Not Afraid: The

Story o f Goodman. Schwerner. and Chaney and the C ivil Rights Campaign for M ississippi. 1988 ($22.50), ISBN 0-02-520260X.

Hutcheson. Richard G. Jr., God in the White House: How Relig ion has Changed the Modern Presidency. 1988 ($ 18.95). ISBN 0-02-557760-3. Can a president successfully practice his faith In the Oval Office? Are there dangers to the separation of church and state? Is religion entirely a private matter with no implications for political activity? Can a sectarian president lead a stubbornly pluralistic democracy? This book suggests that the vigorous entry of religion Into the councils of the p residency is a response to the multidimensional moral crisis of the late twentieth century, compounded of Vietnam. Watergate, and the overturning of traditional values in the turmoil of the sixties. (Watch out, all you secular humanists out there. (VG))

Madison Books, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham. MD 20706.Hannah.Norm anB.,7heKeytoFailure: Laosandthe

Vietnam War. 1987 ($19.95). ISBN 08191^54402. Another right-wing revisionist fantasy which posits a world where victory in Vietnam would have been possible (for *us") if we had only rolled right Into Laos, and declared a proper war. Gets glowing praise from Hany Summers, Jr.. William F. Buckley, and William P. Bundy. (VG)

MIT Press, 55 Hayward St.. Cambridge, MA 02142.Flink.Jam esJ., The Automobile Age, 1988($25.). ISBN

0 2 6 2 -0 6111 -2 . A critica l survey of the development of automotive technologyand the automotive Industry, and an analysis of the social effects of 'autom oblllty' on both workers and consumers. Theem phasisIsontheUS.thew orid 's foremost automobile culture, with developments In the rest of the world analyzed to Illuminate the American experience.

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. MD 21402.Cutler, Thomas J.. Brown Water. Black Berets. 1988

($21.95), ISBN 087021-011-4. Cutler provides a detailed account of the development and operation of the Navy's brown-water fleet right ip to the Vietnamization programs in effect during

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the US troop withdrawal from Southeast Asia.New York Unlv. Press, 136 South Broadway, Irvington, NY10533.

Basinger, Jeanlne. The World War 2 Combat Film: Anatomy o f a Genre. 1986 ($30.). ISBN 0-231- 05952-3. Basinger traces the evolution of the WW2 combat film through Its various stages. Establishing 1943's Bataan as typical, she reveals how elements In this film —characters, settings, narrative structure, film technique, and cultural attitudes—were adapted from prior film s and then readapted and modified for later movies. The genre’s first films told stories based on the real events taking place In the news of the day, but later film s told stories based on the earlier filmed versions of those same events. She indicates how the primary format is changed after the war, how It Is Influenced by the Korean and Vietnam wars, how documentaries help shape It, and how, after a period of epic re-creation. It ultimately becomes dominated by parodies and films showing Inverted or satirical verslonsof the original stories. Contains an annotated filmography.

Cable, Larry E.. Conflict of Myths: The Development o f American Counterinsurgency Doctrine and the Vietnam War. 1988 ($ 15.), ISBN 0-8147-1401 -3. Cable contends that the American under­standing of guerrilla war and the m llltary’sdoc trine for fighting the two major and quite different typesof conflict—the Insurgent and the partisan— which fall under that general term were the lo g ic a l consequences o f an Inco rrect understanding of the experience. Further, he claims, the m ilitary not only failed correctly to appreciate the natue and quality of insurgent conflict but compounded this failure by believing that there existed general-purpose ground combat forces equally capable of fighting mechanized, nuclear battles and Insurgent conflicts. (Cable has apparently written this In response to Summers' arguments. (VG).

Durand, Maurice M. & Nguyen Tran Huan. translated from the French by DM Hawke, An Introduction to Vietnamese literature. 1985 ($25), ISBN 0-231- 05852-7. Traces the development of literature in Vietnam from the earliest times to the reunification of the country In 1975. Period by period the authors analyze Vietnamese literature In terms of form ,linguistic base,and the Interaction between native features and outside Influence—Including Chinese colonization, European missionaries, French occupation, and the US Army, all of which left Indelible marks.

Erickson. Paul D.. Reagan Speaks: The Making o f an American Myth. 1985 ($16.95). ISBN 0-6147-2167- 2. Erickson exposes the techniques used by Reagan and his sta ff to manipulate their audience. We see how Reagan skillfu lly alters facts, makes history Into allegory, creates 'sto c k'

characters who personify good and evil and uses metaphors, myths, and anecdotes to convince the public his way is the only Just and moral way. He reduces questions about economic planning. constitutional Interpretation, and national defense to their most basic emotional level. He forces his public to choose between the forces of evil (his foes) and the forces of good (the Reagan administration).

Noonday Press, 19 Union Sq. W, New York, NY 10003.Dunrance. Dick, Where War Lives: A Photographic

Journal of Vietnam. 1988 ($14.95), ISBN 0-374- 52129-8/1445. A moving and unusual collection of war photographs. Introduced by Ron Kovic. Durance has a terrific eye for a strong shot. (VG)

Orion Books, a division of Crown Publishers, 225 Park Ave. S, New York. NY 10003.

Broughton.Jack.Go/ngDownfown: TheWarAgainst Hanoi and Washington. 1988 ($ 18.95), ISBN 0-517- 56738-5. Tom W olfe's fawning Introduction Indicates his wholehearted acceptance of the Judgement of this man with "the right stu ff': "(Broughton's) angry charge In this book is that America wasted (the fighter Jocks) shamefully In Vietnam by not letting them fight hard enough.' Just another stab-lrvthe-back story. (VG)

Oxford Unlv. Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016.Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Packaging the Presidency:

A History and Criticism o f Presidential Campaign Advertising. 1984 ($12.95), ISBN 0 19-505656-6.

McAdam. Doug. Freedom Summer. 1988 (24.95), ISBN 0-19-504367. McAdam tracked down hundreds of the original project applicants to the Freedom Summer campaign organized by SNCC In 1964, and has combined hard data with a wealth of personal recollections. One of McAdam's most significant findings b that many of the participants in Freedom Summer have remained activists to this day.

Myers, Thomas. Walking Point: American Narratives o f Vietnam. 1988, ISBN 0-19-505351 -6. Yetanother critical survey of Vietnam War literature. This one, though better written than most, also misses the boat. Why Is It that no critic feels It very Important to make the distinction between the work of writers who are Vietnam veterans, and those who are not Vietnam veterans? (VG)

Nichols. J. Bruce. The Uneasy Alliance: Religion. Refugee Work, and US Foreign Policy. 1988 ($24.95). ISBN 0-19-504274-3. After reviewing the history of US government relations with religious relief agencies, the author closely examines three politically explosive refugee situations: Honduras, Thailand, and the Sudan. Treatment of Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees has been greatly complicated by the conflicting attitudes of liberal religious groups and the US and Honduran governments. By contrast, an evangelical group working with Loottan refugees In Thailand found Itself Inadvertently embroiled In

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US policy debates over Laos and Vietnam. And In the Sudan Nichols discovers close ties between re lig ious re lie f organizations and the US government In the surreptitious and extralegal maneuvering to remove the Falashas to Israel. Nichols concludes that Increasing political and moral disagreement between the government and the religious community now threatens the American tradition of worldwide humanitarian assistance and at the same time mirrors the wider loss of consensus In American foreign policy.

Paterson.Thomas G.. Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan. 1988 ($24.95), ISBN 0-19- 504533-5. Paterson expbres why and how Americans have perceived and exaggerated the Communist threat In the last half century. He offers a review of postwar American attitudes toward totalitarianism, the causes of international conflic t, and foreign a id , and he then demonstrates how Truman acted upon these views, launched the containment doctrine, and exercised American power In both Europe and Asia. He continues with a look at Elsenhower's Middle East policy. Kennedy's foreign policy, CIA covert actions, and the failure of congressional oversight from the 1940s to the present. He also examines Reagan's rewritten history of the Vietnam War .and attacks the argument that the war could have been won. In his last chapter he probes the analogy between Vietnam and Central America In the 1980s.

Pacific Books. PO Box 558. Palo Alto. CA 94302.Lowenthal, Leo & Norbert Guterman. Prophets of

Deceit: A Study o f the Techniques o f the American Agitator. 1970 ($ 1.95) (Yes. really. They still have some copies from the original printing.) This was a 1970 revision of the original study, published In 1949. of the American demagogue. It explores racist tactics employed by these politician In terms of anti-Semitism, and attacks on third world peoples. Including Vietnamese and North Koreans. (VG)

Van Dyke. Jon M.. North Vietnam's Strategy for Survival. 1972($18.95).ISBN 0-87015-191-6. Analysis of the effect of the war on North Vietnamese life, with particular emphasis on the evacuation of people and Industry from the dtles to the rural areas, the labor shortages caused by the Increase In the size of the army and by the need for manpower to repair transportation routes, and the changes which have been necessitated In the country's agricultural and Industrial sectors.

Pantheon Books, a division of Random House. New York,NY 10022.

Dower, John W ., War Without Mercy: Race & Power In the Pacific War, 1986 ($9.95). ISBN 0-394-75172- 8. Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda film s, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time. Dower opens up a whole new way of

looking at the Pocific War and Its ramifications.Stem. Philip M., The Best Congress Money Can Buy.

1988 ($18.95). ISBN 0-394-56628-9. This volume Is replete w ith exam ples and evidence of politicians' growing dependence on PACs and special Interests for their campaign funds. Included are sections listing the largest PACs and a restaurant-style guide ranking each member of Congress from most to least dependent on special-interest money. Stem doesn't hesitate to name names.

Pergamon-Brassey’s International Defense Publishers, 8000 Westpark Dr., 4th floor, McLean, VA 22102-3101.

Bowman. W illiam, etal. (eds.), The All- Volunteer Force After a Decade: Retrospect and Prospect, 1986. ISBN 0-08-032409-6.

Matthews. Uoyd B.. et al. (eds.). Assessing the Vietnam War. 1987. ISBN 0-08-035181-6. A collection of essays from the US Arm y's War College. All the m ilitary types love this volume: Matthew Ridgeway, Ronald Spector.and Douglas Klnnard. General Bruce Palmer, Jr. wrote the Introduction. (VG)

Moskos, Charles C. & Frank Wood (eds.). The Military: More than Just a Job? 1988.0-08-034321 -X. You can get the drift from this promotional paragraph: *ln what has become a worldwide trend, service In the armed forces Is drifting from an institutional format to one resembling a civilian occupation In which many personnel are motivated by mere careerism. This book provides the defense professional with a solid foundation on which to base organizational and personnel policies. It also has much to tell the general reader about what life is really like in today's m ilitary and how it can differ around the world."

Tyroler. Charles II (ed.). Alerting America: The Papers o f the Committee on the Present Danger. 1984, ISBN 0-08-031925-4. Well, here you go. Ifyouwant to know your enemy, this is where It's at. I read it a little at a time and Intersperse sections of this book with good doses of fantasy or science fiction to take the edge off. There's a great list In the front of the book which names members of the Committee and their posts In the Reagan government. Don't just shrug your shoulders. Pick this one up; It 's an Important document. (VG)

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia. PA 19102.

Jackson. Laura (producer). After Our War. How Will Love Speak?. ($50 video). This half-hour documentary, made for public television. Interviews Vietnam writers: John Bala ban, Lady Borton. Arthur Egendorf, Bill Ehrhardt. Jerry Genesio and Wally Terry. The writers talk about coming to terms with their experience of the war through the books they have written. Scenes from the war run as the writers read excerpts of their work.

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Q uill Press, 105 Madison Ave.. New York, NY 10016.Riche Ison. Jeffrey. American Espionage and the

Soviet Target. 1987 ($8.95). ISBN 0-688-7954-7. An account of how the US spies on the USSR. From HUMINT (human Intelligence) to ground stations to air and satellite reconnaissance to a whole smorgasbord of high-tech electronic survellonce techniques. Rlchelson describes Just how the CIA and other Intelligence organizations find out what the Soviets are doing. Rlchelson suggests that the Impetus to collect massive amounts of data and develop highly sophisticated collection systems has eclipsed the most Important function of an Intelligence network: to provide the data and analysis required to address the most Important Issues of foreign, economic, and defense policy.

Recon Publications,PO Box 14602.Philadelphia, PA 19184.Vo Nguyen Glap. How We Won the W ar($5.). ISBN 0-

916894-01-0. Recon has republished this classic text, which has been out of print since 1980. Get your copies while they last. (VG)

Salem House, 462 Boston Street, Topsfield. MA 01983.Steadman, Ralph. Scar-Strangled Banger. 1988

($29.95). ISBN 0-88162-314-8. Steadman turns his satirical attentions to America, the Land of the Free, where even God can be acquired with a credit card. In this land of seemingly lim itless opportunities, of AII-NIte Uquor stores, aerobic work-outs, silicone lifts, and Saturday Night Specials, a country where lettuce Is served with everything, he finds that the quality of life Is dependent mainly on personal wealth and alr- conditionlng. Includes portraits of the Nixon years, Vietnam and Watergate, and the Reagan years. Pearlygate and the 1988 Presidential election.

Scarecrow Press, 52 Uberty St.. PO Box4167, Metuchen, NJ 08840.

Einstein. Daniel, Special Edition: A Guide to Network Television Documentary Series and Special News Reports. 1955-1979.1987. ISBN 0-8108-1898-1. An Indispensable reference for anyone who studies television. I find myself running to It at least once a week. (VG)

Levy, Emanuel, John Wayne: Prophet o f the American Way o f Life. 1988. ISBN 0-8108-2054-4. If you do popJar culture and Vietnam, don't miss this. (VG)

Newman. John, Vietnam War Literature. 1988, ISBN 0-8108-2155-9. Still another edltionof the Newman bibliography. This one has a glowing Intro by John Clark Pratt. Newman has done us all a favor by keeping track of the publication of even the most obscure Vietnam novels. The new chronological arrangement Is very useful. Those who have difficulty tolerating his Inane plot reductions of favorite novels can simply skip thesummarles and use the references. (VG)

Palmer, William J„ The Film s o f the Seventies: ASocial History. 1987, ISBN 0-8108-1955-4. Of the ten films upon which Palmer concentrates, three are Vietnam Aims: The Deer Hunter. Go Tell the

Sp a rta ns, and A pocalypse Now. The entirevolume will be Interesting to Vietnam generation scholars, but of particular note are chapters 6-9: ‘The Vietnam War Film s." "The Forgotten Vietnam War Rim ," ‘Superimposed Realities," and ‘The Australian War Film s'. (VG)

Schocken Book*, 62 Cooper Sq., New York. NY 10003.Lens, Sidney. Permanent War: The Militarization of

America. 1987 ($18.95). ISBN 0-8052-4025-X. Completed shortly before Lens' death In 1986. this book warns that the path of permanent war waged since 1945 leads to losses far beyond territorial boundaries and spheres of political influence, to the corrosion of the foundations of our democratic society. He argues that the weakening of our legal and moral values has led us to this crossroads. Lens Argues that the ‘ National Security State Is an authoritarian state which has removed Itself from most popular controls....To function as a democracy would make It impossible to continue the war."

Scribner’s, a division of Macmillan Publishing. 866 Third Ave.. New York. NY 10022.

Ledeen. Michael A.. Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account o f the Iran-Contra Affair. 1988 (S19.95). ISBN 0-684-18994-1. The idea of Ledeen offering to ‘tell a ll' about the Iran-Contra affair is pretty amusing. The Fall 1984 Covert Action Information Bulletin describes him as ‘ In tight with the Reagan administration. (A) contract consultant on terrorism for the State Department ever since Reagan and Ledeen's mentor Alexander Haig took office. (T)he Pentagon has confirmed to CAIB that Ledeen has a consultant contract with the Defense Department... It has been widely reported that Ledeen has been put In charge of the US government's ‘analysis' of the captued Grenada papers....' (p.41). Along with Arnaud deBorchegrave. Robert Moss, and Claire Sterling. he 's one of the top CIA disinformation pushers In this country. The promotional material promises that ‘ ihe record Is uncovered, supplemented, and corrected again and again in Ledeen's unique account...'

Unger, Irwin & Debl, Turning Point: 1968.1988(524.95). ISBN 0-684-18696-9. Yet another 60s cash-ln. (VG)

Shameless Hussy Press, Box 3092, Berkeley, CA 94703.Byrd. Barthy. Home Front: Women and Vietnam.

1986 (S7.95), ISBN 0-915288-52-4. Interviews with nine American women. Including a Vietnamese refugee.about the Vietnam War. Thisshortvolume Is definitely worth taking a look at. particularly if you are looking for examples of oral histories which differ from the male-oriented, warrior- worshipping norm. Look for a longer review In the Newsle tie r accompanying our Issue on Gender and the War. (VG)

Simon ft Schuster, Rockefeller Center, 1230 Ave. of the Americas. New York, NY 10020.

Becker. Elizabeth, When the War Was Over: Cambodia's Revolution and the Voices o f Its

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People. 1987 ($9.95). ISBN 671-64559-5. Becker, who covered Cambodia for the WasNngton Post. describes the Khmer Rouge revolution and Its aftermath.

Doan Van Toal, & David Chanoff, The Vietnamese Gulag. 1986 ($18.95). ISBN 0-671-60350-7. This *gee. was I disillusioned with the revolution' Vietnamese autobiography was co-authored by the dynamic disinformation duo. David Dellinger, In Vietnam Revisited (South End Press, 1986) mentions that ‘ I happen to know some things about Toal and they all lead to the C IA ' (p.138). But. just as Dellinger cautions his readers not to Interpret Vietcong Memoir too sim pllstically, this second book can 'provide us with some interesting Insights into some of the people who once worked together and now are In opposing cam ps.' (VG)

Gutman, Roy, Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy In Nicaragua. 1981-1987, 1988 ($.19.95), ISBN0-671-60626-3. Gutman believes that Reagan's Nicaraguan obsession exemplified his adm inistration's flawed foreign policy. In the White House and the State Department, rival power centers relied on Intrigues, backstabblng. and conspiracy to fu lfill their conflicting visions of Reagan foreign policy. Gutman explores the roles of Casey and North In the formulation of policy In Nicaragua and other third world trouble spots. He traces the controversial tenures of Thomas Enders. Tony Motley, and Elliott Abrams, and the roles played by hardliners like Kirkpatrick and Caspar Weinberger.

Schoenbaum. Thomas J„ Waging Peace & War: Dean Rusk in the Truman. Kennedy & Johnson Years. 1988 ($22.95), ISBN 0-671-60351-5. Schoenbaum's book Is both an account of one of America's most Influential statesmen and a look at our country's most significant foreign policy decisions, from the Korean War to the conflict In Vietnam.

Thompson, Hunter S., Generation o f Swine: Gonzo Papers. Vol. 2. Tales o f Shame and Degradation In the '80s. 1988 ($19.95), ISBN 0-671-66147-7. Another priceless Hunter Thompson collection. Who could resist? (VG)

Soundprint.WJHU, Johns Hopkins Unlv.,2216 North CharlesSt.. Baltimore. MD 21218 (301)333-9548.

Borton. Lady, After Sorrow. 1987 ($10). Edited from Interviews taped for Public Radio. After Sorrow portrays ord inary northern and southern Vietnamese women who fought against the Americans. The documentary, which ran on 120 public radio stations, emphasizes the women's stories.

St. Martin’* Pres*, 175 Fifth Ave„ New York. NY 10010.Berry, Henry, Hey. Mac. Where Ya Been? Living

Memoirs o f the US Marines In the Korean War. 1988 ($22.95), ISBN 0-312-01772-3. Cashing In on the oral history book boom. this new collection by

the author of Semper Fi. Mac. has no surprises. But If you want oral histories from the Korean War, here they are. (VG)

Coleman, JD.Pteiku: The Dawn o f Helicopter Warfare In Vietnam. 1988 ($19.95), ISBN 0-312-01807-X. Unit history of the 1st Air Cavalry by a man who served as an Information officer and participated In the Plelku Campaign. (For hardcore military history buffs. (VG))

Javna, John and Gordon. 60s!: A Catalog of Memories and Artifacts. 1988 ($ 14.95). ISBN 0-312- 01725-1. Its back cover blurb babbles. 'N o t a serious book about drugs or Vietnam, 60s! Is a light-hearted, affectionate look at the real [sic) 60s—the Laugh-In Years, the Silly Putty Decade, when America drove like James Bond, dressed like Twiggy, danced to the Beatles, and watched The Man From UNCLE....' Reviewed by such lofty journals as People Magazine and the Los Angeles Weekly. Though the text is predictably insipid, this volume Is worth It for the pictures alone. (VG)

Parker. T. Jefferson. Uttle Saigon. 1988 ($18.95), ISBN 0-312-02245-X. Detective novel by the author of Laguna Heat, set In a Vietnamese refugee community In Orange County. CA.

Stackpole Books, Cameron and Kelker Sts.. Harrisburg, PA.

Reflections on the Wall: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photographs by the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Printing and Photographic Services. 1987 ($16.95). ISBN 0-8117-1846-8. A sentimental promo piece about the Memorial W all. A portion of the proceeds of each copy go to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Some nice photos, but you'd think from this piece that there was no such thing as an antiwar Vietnam vet. (VG)

Thunder’s Mouth Press, 93-99 Greene St„ New York. NY 10012

Jacob. John, Long Ride Back. 1988 ($9.95). ISBN 0- 938410-46-6. An excellent novel by a Vietnam veteran about readjusting after the war. Extremely well written; not one of the current crop of * Vietnam-chic" cash-ins. (VG)

Wllens, John Oliver, 'Sippi. 1967 ($9.95). ISBN 0-938410- 55-5. Republicatlon of the classic civil rights novel.

Times Books, a division of Random House, New York. NY 10022.

Blair, Clay, The Forgotten War: America In Korea 1950-1953. 1987 ($29.95), ISBN0-8129-167CK). A truly enormous study of the Korean War. Worth taking a look at. (VG)

Hayden. Tom. Reunion: A Memoir. 1988 ($22.50). ISBN 0-394-56533-9. Another 60s activist memoir. (VG)

Smith, Hedrick. The Power Game: How WasNngton Works. 1988 (24.95). ISBN 0-394-5547-7. The author of The Russians uses the same epic style In an analysis of the Washington scene. He claims that a revolutionary explosion of power In the mld-

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1970s turned Washington inside out, and that there is a new breed of winner with new political styles and new sets of rules—and new talents and techniques are required If the American system of government Is to work effectively.

Wise, David, The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story o f Edward Lee Howard. 1988 ($18.95).ISBN 0-394- 56281-X. Wise managed to make contact with Howard and met secretty with him for six days In Budapest.

Union for Radical Political Economics, 122 W 27th St., New York. NY 10001.

Cherry, Robert, eta l. (eds.). The Imperiled Economy. Book 1: Macroeconomics from a Left Perspective, 1987 ($9.50). ISBN 0-933306-50-4. And The Imperiled Economy. Book 2: Through the Safety Net. 1988($8.50).ISBN0-933306-51-2. Someofthe best alternative economic theorists have written for these two volumes. An essential read for anyone Interested In alternate perspectives on American and world economy. (VG)

Univ. of British Columbia Press, 303-6344 Memorial Rd.. Vancouver. BC Canada V6T 1W5.

Miller, Mary Jane, Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama since 1952.1987, ISBN 0-7748-0278-2.

Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94720.Lazere, Donald (ed.). American Media and Mass

Culture: Left Perspectives. 1987. ISBN 0-520-04495- 9. The authors Include scholars from a dozen academic disciplines as well as leading leftist media activists. They present a counterstatement to the conservatism that has been ascendent since the 70s In both American cultural criticism and electoral politics, providing evidence In refutation of conservative claims that American media are biased in favor of the left. (Though there unfortunately are not any essays devoted to media representations of the Vietnam War. this volume should prove useful to those of us who study the subject. (VG))

Marx. Gary T., Under Cover: Police Surveillance in America. 1988. ISBN 0-520-06286-8. Marx examines the variety of undercover operations and the ethical Issues and empirical assumptions raised when the state o ffic ia lly sanctions deception and trickery and allows Its agents to participate In crime. The consequences that undercover operations can have for surveillance targets, third parties. Informers, and police are examined. Marx proposes that the tactic be one of last resort, and he specifies the conditions and controls that should be present before It Is used. He argues that If our democratic rights are not to be compromised by new forms of surveillance, greater vigllanceand more sensible and sensitive laws and policies are required.

Rice. Edward E., Wars o f the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries. 1988, ISBN 0-520- 06236-1. Rice examines a host of conflicts, beginning with the American Revolution, but concentrating on the Chinese CMI War. the Huk

rebellion,the Malaysian Insurrection.the Algerian W ar, and the Vietnamese War, and the repeated conflicts in Central and Latin America. He explores the origin of these wars, the motivation and organization of the people who fight them, their rural and popular natixe. how and why guerrilla armies may be converted Into regular armies, conceptual approaches to counterinsurgency, and the 'natura l h isto ry' of these wars.

Rogln. Michael, Ronald Reaaan. the Movie and Other Episodes In Political Demonology. 1987. ISBN 0-520-05937-9. Political demonology. Rogin argues, Is found not simply among extremists and outsiders but among the political and cultural elites at the center of American politics. Movies have linked elite and mass mentalities In our century. Rogln looks at the relationships between movies and politics, from the origin of motion pictures In the racial fantasies of The Birth of a Nation to the origins of Ronald Reagan In motion pictures. Rogln traces the sources of Reagan's confusion between politics and the movies to the roles the actor played on screen. To trace the genealogy of the Reagan phenomenon, Rogln examines the roles of Indian removal. the myth of the West, and political repression In creating an American political Identity, and looks at the cold war film s that formed the world view of the president.

Rouqui6. Alain, The M ilitary and the State In Latin America, translated by Paul E. Sigmund. 1982/ 1988. ISBN 0-520-05559-4. After tracing the background of Latin American militarism In the 19th century. Rouqul6 d isting u ishe s the Institutionalized m ilitary interventions of the mld- 20th century from the earlier personalized caudlllo rule that still exits In a few countries in Latin America. He explains the phenomenon of Institutionalized m ilitary Intervention as the result of early modernization and professionallzatlonofthe Latin American military. He also evaluates the impact of foreign influences, especially that of the US since WW2. and develops a typology to describe the relation of the m ilitary to the state in different countries.

Univ. of Chicago Press, 5801 South Ellis Ave.. Chicago, IL60637.

Farber. David. Chicago '68. 1988 ($19.95). ISBN 0- 226-23800-8. Farber reconstructs the bloody confrontation at the 1968 Democratic Convention by drawing on primary sources: interviews, private papers, organizational records, newspapers, magazines, film s and filmed accounts,and books of the times. He tells and retells the story from the perspectives of each of the major protagonists: the Ylpples. the Mobe. and the Daley machine. He argues that the crisis of the times was driven by the unavoidable discovery, by both protesters and defenders of order, of categorical cultural and ideological differences In a society grown

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politically dependent on the appearance and operation of national consensus. He concludes by examining the consequences of democratic participation built on a charismatic national leader and bureaucratized Interest groups.

Unlv. of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IO 52242.Coles. Robert. That Red Wheelbarrow: Selecfed

Uterary Essays. 1988 ($24.95). IS8N 087745-208-3. Unlv. of North Carolina Press, PO Box2288, Chapel HIII.NC 27515-2288.

Bennett. David H.. The Party o f Fear: From Nativist Movement to the New Right In American History. 1988. ISBN 08078-1772-4. Bennet asserts that the Am erican Right em erged from antla llen movements, repeatedly fueled by the burning desire to answer the question. 'W ho are the real Americans?' Beginning with the Know-Nothings and the American Protective Ass. of the 19th century, through the Red Scare of 1919 and Ku Klux Klan of the 20s. to the Coughlin movement of the 30s. McCarthylsm and the Birch Society In postwar America, and, finally, the neofascists and New Right of the 80s. Bennett views the concern of right-wing movements from the perspective of their own fears and anxieties. He dem onstrates how right-w ing movements evolved from movements against 'un-Am erican' peoples to movements against 'un-Am erican' Ideas. He examines today's religious Right and political 'hard right* (Falwell.Robertson.Vlguerie. Weyrlch. etc.). This political force, which arose out of the upheavals of the 60s and the disappointments of the 70s, differs from the earlier ones In that the target Is no longer foreign Influences but perceived evils within our own society. Bennett concludes that the political extremism of the Right w ill remain a powerful force In American life.

Unlv. of Wisconsin Press, 114 N. Murray St., Madison. Wl 53715.

MacDonald, Sharon, et al. (eds.). Images o f Women In Peace and War: Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives. 1987, ISBN 0-299-11764-2. This book explores women's relationships to war, peace, and revolution. The contributors consider the reality of women's participation and also look at how their actions have been perceived and represented across cultures and through history. They examl ne how sexua 11 imagery Is constructed, how It Is used to delineate women's relation to warfare and how these Images have sometimes been subverted In order to challenge the status quo. (Unfortunately, there Is nothing here about Vietnam, but the collection is nonetheless useful for providing methodological comparisons. (VG))

UMI Research Press, 300 N. Zeeb Rd.. Arm Arbor. Ml 48106.Renov, Michael, Hollywood's Wartime Woman:

Representation and Ideology. 1988, ISBN 0-8357- 1813-1.

Simone. Sam P., Hitchcock as Activist: Politics and

the War Films. 1985. ISBN 0-8357-1654-6. Vietnamese Studies at Yale, Yale Southeast Asia Studies, Box 13A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520

Vietnam Forum, a semiannual review of Vietnamese culture and history ($12 a year in the US; $14 elsewhere). See advertisement In this issue.

Viking Kestrel/Penguln, 40W 23rd St.. New York, NY 10010 Heinemam, Larry, Close Quarters. 1977 ($6.95), ISBN

0-14-008578-5. One of the better Vietnam War novels, notable for the transformation of Its protagonist from brutality back to humanity. And Paco's Story. 1987 ($4.50). ISBN 0-14-010085-7. Helnemann's Incredibly over-rated second novel. Winner of that oh-so-polltical prize, the National Book Award; Vietnam vet authors were apparently " in ' this year, while black women (like Toni Morrison) have fallen out of favor. (VG)

Kamow. Stanley. Vietnam: A History. 1983 ($12.95), ISBN 0-14-007324-8. You can buy this from the publisher, but you can probably pick It up cheaper off the remnantrack On hardcover, even) atyour local college bookstore. Though Kamow has the nerve to subtitle his book 'The First Complete Account of Vietnam at W ar," a number of respectable critics have questioned his ultimate authority. (VG)

Pratt, John Clark, Vietnam Voices: Perspectives on the War Years. 1941-1982.1984 (12.95). ISBN 0-14- 006359-5. One of the classic 'representative view point' collections on the Vietnam War. (VG)

W.W. Norton, 500 Fifth Ave.. New York. NY 10010Digglns.John Patrick, The Proud Decades: America

In War and Peace. 1941-1960.1988 ($19.95). ISBN 0-393-02548-9. Diggins tells the story of these decades In a narrative form, a story with a beginning (the war), a middle (the economic victory at home and the struggle to keep the peace abroad), and an end (the passing of these days Into the tumultuous sixties). The cover blurb reads: 'It Is a time when, by conquering In a great war, by battling the evils within Itself, and by going on to prosperity, America had good reason to be proud and. In the end, good reason to ask 'What shall we do with our greatness?''

Dougan. Clark & Stephen Weiss. The American Experience In Vietnam. 1988 ($39.95), ISBN 0-393- 02598-5. This large picture book was written and edited by the same team that produced the 25 volume Illustrated history of the War, The Vietnam Experience. Beautiful photos, but don't expect much out of the text. (VG)

Eddy, Paul, with Hugo Sabogal and Sara Walden, The Cocaine Wars. 1988 ($18.95). ISBN 0-393- 02579-9. Books about multim lllion dollar drug profits, corrupt cops and crime families more powerful than governments are bound to be sensational. Unfortunately, most such books are also of dubious credibility. The Cocaine Wars addresses this problem both by providing abundant detail from Interviews and official

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records, and by Including a long and forthright 'Notes and Sources" section which Illuminates the author's own biases as well as their subject's. This credibility makes the CIA Involvement, the widespread corruption and the utterly Ineffectual U.S. response to the problem described seem all the more troubling. Perhaps most surprising Is the suggestion that "America (is) no longer engaged In an all-out battle against a massive conspiracy, but that. In a subtle way. It (has) become part of that conspiracy." (VG)

Edelman. Bernard. for the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. 1985 ($13.95), ISBN 0-393- 01998-5. Edited collection of the letters compiled during the search for material to engrave on the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Gardner, Lloyd C„ Approaching Vietnam: From World W ar2 through Dienbienphu. 1988 ($22.50), ISBN 0-393-02540-3. Thestoryofthe "other Vietnam w ar,"—a diplomatic and unequivocally American war that began In 1941 as the fires of WW2 raged.

Koning, Hans, Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report. 1987 ($15.95), ISBN 0-393-02471-1. Another 60s personal narrative. This, however. Is one of the best. (VG)

Kwltny, Jonathan, The Crimes o f the Patriots: A True Story of Dope. Dirty Money, and the CIA. 1987 ($19.95), ISBN 0-393-02387-7. In his last book. Endless Enemies. Kwltny demonstrated that our anti-communist based foreign policy undermines American security. Here he exposes the crimes committed against American citizens In pursuit of that policy. He shows how some of the biggest names In American defense and Intelligence were Involved in an operation that promoted the drug trade, tax evasion, and gun running, and swindled American citizens and citizens of allied counWes out of m illions of dollars. Kw ltny's tale of the Nugan Hand bank affair demonstrates that the Iran-Contra affair was only the tip of the Iceberg.

LaFeber, Walter. Inevitable Revolutions: The United States In Central America. 1984 ($7.95). ISBN 0- 393-30212-1.

Smith, Wayne S., The Closest o f Enemies: A Personal and Diplomatic Account o f US-Cuban Relations Since 1957. 1987 ($8.95). ISBN 0-393-30530-9. Walter LaFeber called It "The most provocative and Informative insider's account we have on US policy toward Cuba and Central America during the Carter and Reagan years."

Weldenfleld & Nlcolson, 10 E 53rd St.. New York, NY 10022Crittenden, Arm. Sanctuary: A Story o f American

Conscience and Law In Collision. 1988 ($21.95), ISBN 1-55584-039-6. Crittenden follows the sanctuary movement from Its obscure beginning In 1980 to Its headline-making climax in federal court In 1986. She also casts light on the America of Ronald Reagan—not just on the effect of Its

official policy, but on the everyday people who remain ready, as In the time of slavery, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam war, to challenge a government they Judge to be acting contrary to conscience and the best American traditions.

Kaiser. Charles, 1968 in America: Music. Politics. Chaos. Counterculture, and the Shaping o f a Generation. 1988 ($19.95). ISBN 1-55584-242-9. Largely based on unpublished Interviews and documents (Including In-depth conversations with McCarthy and Dylan, among many others, and the late Theodore W hite's archives, to which the author had sole access).

Simpson. Christopher. Blowback: The FirstFJIAccount o f Am erica's Recruitment o f Nazis, and Its Disastrous Effect on our Domestic and Foreign Policy. 1988 ($19.95). ISBN 1-55584-106-6. Among the wealth of new material In this book, Simpson brings to light for the first time how senior members of the State Department and the CIA helped organize clandestine programs that brought high- ranking Nazis and Axis government officials to America—and how the State Department has covered up the evidence ever since; how the Pentagon falsified its own files to bring former Nazi scientists, some of the SS officers such as Werner von Braun, Into the country; how in 1948 Nazis on the US intelligence payroll seriously misrepresented the nature and extent of the Soviet threa t. there by materially heightening the cold war; how the Pentagon trained and equipped former Nazi collaborators for use as antt-Communist guerrillas in the event of a nuclear confrontation; how the CIA has spent m illions to bankroll anti-Semitic 6m igr6 political groups inside the US—and has consistently hidden the part played by leaders of these groups during the Holocaust. (If you aren't completely appalled when you read this, you're probably part of the problem. (VG))

W illiam Morrow, Inc., 105 Madison Ave., New York. NY 10016.

Sheehy, Gall. Character: Am erica's Search for Leadership. 1988 ($17.95), ISBN CH688-08072-3. A pop-psychosocial exploration of what has sha ped the character of George Bush, Bob Dole, Mike Dukakis. Albert Gore. Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, and Ronald Reagan. (VG)

Monroe, Sylvester & Peter Goldman, Brothers: Black and Poor—A True Story o f Courage and Survival. 1988 ($18.95), ISBN 0-688-076220-X. Brothers chronicles the lives of 12 men who grew up together In two of the toughest housing projects on Chicago's south side. In the summer of 1986, Sylvester Monroe (who grew up In the same ghetto), along with three other correspondents and a photographer from Newsweek, spent four months with the brothers at the Robert Taylor Homes and Prairie Courts. The stories that ran In Newsweek have been greatly expanded.

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Winks, Robin W„ Cloak & Gown: Scholars In the Secret War. 1<?39-1961.1987 ($22.95), ISBN 0h$88- 07300-X. W inks establishes the paternity of the CIA by the OSS. Of the 13,000 men and women who worked for the OSS, a great number helped establish the CIA. Of these. Yale men, and a few women, were numerous. Overall, the OSS recruited from the Ivy League universities and from the largest of the state universities as well.

Yale Unlv. Press, 92A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520.H u rt. Michael H.. Ideology and US Foreign Policy.

1987,ISBN0-300-03717-1. Huntsuggeststhatthere are three enduring elements that have shaped the American vision of the word: A conception of national mission defined In terms of the vigorous promotion of liberty abroad; A classification of other peoples In a racial hierarchy that reflects the class and elhnlc preferences handed down from our founding fathers; A hostility toward

revolutions that diverge from the American norm, especially those on the Left. According to Hunt, this ideology Is conceptually and operationally bankrupt and—as dramatically demonstrated in the Vietnam War—Imposes excessively high costs In American lives, resources, and fundamental values. He argues for a foreign policy based on a new 'repub lican' Ideology. Such a foreign policy 'w ould not be a vehicle for the pursuit of national greatness abroad but a buffer against outside shocks and threats to our pursuit of greatness at home. It would have to be guided above all by the recognition that Americans can work toward a Just, equitable society only by restraining the impulse toward global reform .'

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