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The Quiet Americans
The Middle East wars have been met with willful indifference from Americans on the home front.
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Failing and Falling, From Saigon to the Taliban
The Vietnam generation revisits its errors in Afghanistan.
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Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century
George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menand’s new tome on America in the Cold War era.
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Retrying the Chicago Seven
Sorkin’s film plays fast and loose with characters and facts, but he got one thing right.
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Q&A: Vietnam and the Road to Disaster
A Naval Academy historian examines how a savvy president and his smart advisors failed in Southeast Asia and helped sow the seeds of polarization in American politics and society.
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The Vietnam War: A Conversation with Ken Burns
America’s foremost documentary filmmakers lift the curtain on the country’s psychic wounds in this stunning new history of our most divisive conflict since the Civil War.