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Through \Star-Spangled Eyes\: Fortunate Son and the Problem of Resolution
Because of the extent of their injuries, Ron Kovic's Bom on the Fourth of July and Lew Puller's Fortunate Son conclude radically different from the other books listed above. Because alcoholism was a symptom of the trauma not the cause, Puller's narrative of healing remains surface-level. [...]we should bear in mind that while the effects of trauma on perpetrators of violence are lasting and terrible-the impacts on recipients of violence are far greater. Jason A. Higgins is completing a Ph.D. in History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, conducting the Incarcerated Veterans Oral History Project, and writing his dissertation on the history of incarcerated veterans since the war in Vietnam. Since 2011, he has completed over sixty oral history interviews with veterans from the Second World War and the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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A rumor of war
\"In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home-- physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone. 'A Rumor of War' is far more than one soldier's story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America's indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. In the years since then, it has become not only a basic text on the Vietnam War but also renowned classic in the literature of wars throughout history and, as the author writes, of 'the things men do in war and the things war does to them'\"--Back cover.
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Writing Vietnam, Writing Life
Phillip Caputo, Larry Heinemann, Tim O'Brien, and Robert Olen Butler: four young midwestern Americans coming of age during the 1960s who faced a difficult personal decision-whether or not to fight in Vietnam. Each chose to participate. After coming home, these four veterans became prizewinning authors telling the war stories and life stories of soldiers and civilians. The four extended conversations included inWriting Vietnam, Writing Lifefeature revealing personal stories alongside candid assessments of each author's distinct roles as son, soldier, writer, and teacher of creative writing.As Tobey Herzog's thoughtful interviews reveal, these soldier-authors have diverse upbringings, values, interests, writing careers, life experiences, and literary voices. They hold wide-ranging views on, among other things, fatherhood, war, the military, religion, the creative process, the current state of the world, and the nature of both physical and moral courage. For each author, the conversation and richly annotated chronology provide an overview of the writer's life, the intersection of memory and imagination in his writing, and the path of his literary career. Together, these four life stories also offer mini-tableaux of the fascinating and troubling time of 1960s and 1970s America. Above all, the conversations reveal that each author is linked forever to the Vietnam War, the country of Vietnam, and its people.
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The longest road : overland in search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Philip Caputo, who had just turned seventy, his wife, and their two English setters, took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered sixteen thousand miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than eighty Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the twenty-first century.
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THE BAND NEVER PLAYED FOR US: The Vietnam War as Seen by a Marine Rifleman in 1967
There have been scores of books about the Vietnam War, from Michael Herr's quirky \"Dispatches,\" to Philip Caputo's ensnaring \"A Rumor of War,\" to Gustav Hasford's memoirs thinly veiled as fiction, \"The Short Timers.All of us sons of World War II veterans grew up seeing Hollywood movies that showed American troops boarding ships and going off to war with bands playing, friends and well-wishers swarming the docks to give the soldiers a rousing send off.Goddard's Vietnam War memoirs weave a fascinating web.
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The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Page Turner column
Amazingly, my parents actually let me bring a book to the table and I would prop it around my plate and as I ate my food, I devoured my book! I would go to school and nine times out of 10, would sit on the floor of my room and read.
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Dark Horse. p. 74 King, Tom (text) & Mitch Gerads (illus.). Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture. Poll Power:The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South.
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