... era civil rights protest, but several of whom were active veterans of the Vietnam War, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, and local Black Power groups. This chapter offers a reconceptualization of Black masculinity as African American men in both Texas...

... Longley Edna metaphor modern nature Piette Adam romance Sacks Sam tradition Vietnam war Whitman Walt Vonnegut Kurt Young Matt censorship class death earth gender individual masculinity movie race television trauma Dos Passos John Fallon Siobhan Fitzgerald F Scott Heller Joseph...

... an acceptable way of ending the Vietnam War. These issues are presented in this chapter. Dobrynin Anatoly Haig Alexander China and Kissinger Henry A Angolan conflict 1974–76 and Kissinger and the Soviet Union Reagan Ronald Cambodia De Gaulle Charles European Economic Community EEC Johnson Lyndon B...

... evangelist. For Frady, Graham embodied the American myth of innocence, which the Vietnam War and Watergate crisis had put on trial. The story of the book highlights the dynamics surrounding the Graham image. The assertive pushback against Frady’s book by the evangelist and his handlers suggested the high...

...In its roughly 25 years of existence, the trial-consulting profession has grown dramatically in membership, recognition, and breadth of practice. What began as a small activist group of social scientists volunteering their expertise to assist in the defense of Vietnam War protestors, has evolved...

...This chapter tackles the politics of image-making that shaped the life cycle of the Vietnam War. It examines the case studies of the 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential campaigns where no presidential nominees attempted to win public support by making proposals for handling the war that voters...

... work that paraded its excesses without necessarily celebrating them. Vidal was busy this year as well, appearing as a commentator on the Vietnam War and the riots in Chicago at the Democratic Convention, which led to a vicious argument with conservative commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. Beckett...

... both Republican and Democratic administrations. Although progressives since the Vietnam War have worked to limit presidential authority in matters related to armed conflicts and national security, they generally have not pushed for restraining that authority in domestic matters. It is time...

... Thailand Khmer Serei Free Khmer Shawcross William Son Le Turkoly Joczik Robert L Whitehouse Charles Norodom Sihanouk retirement death Khmer Rouge Vietnam War legacy Sõn Ngc Thành So’n Ngọ c Thành’s second departure from the position of prime minister was drastically different than his first...

...This chapter examines the US military’s overseas rest and recreation (R&R) program in Taipei, Taiwan during the Vietnam War. Drawing on Chinese and English-language sources, it argues that R&R was a central component of the “comfort-for-morale-formula” that underpinned the US war effort...

...To internationalize the American military effort in the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson sought a military coalition of third-country forces, which he termed “more flags,” to join the United States and South Vietnam in fighting the Vietnamese communists. The existing SEATO defense structure...

... Thompson democracy freedom songs Holly Springs Freedom School Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party MFDP Chaney Ben Chaney James Dennis Dave Freedom Summer volunteers disappearance death of Johnson Lyndon Kabat Lucien as a Freedom Summer volunteer New York Times Vietnam War Falk Gail Kabat...

... a degree, as well as his role in various campus groups and protests against the Vietnam War. It includes Gatewood's time at the University of Kentucky Law School, and his drafting of the "Model Plan for Legal Marijuana". The chapter introduces Gatewood's then-wife, Susan Sears, and the birth of his first...

...The United States has failed to deal fully with the horrifically violent parts of our past. For my family it was my father’s traumatic experiences in the Vietnam War. American society, along with financially-strapped veterans’ associations, then and now, struggle to help veterans deal effectively...

...Richard Nixon’s politics and penchant for vengeance, rising agitation in and about America’s prisons, and conflict over the Vietnam War’s legacy (especially for veterans) fuelled Nixon’s destructive, though unsteady, war on crime and its focus on drugs. The rehabilitative ideal—the belief...

... security costs nuclear weapons authoritarian regimes Vietnam Vietnam War North Vietnam South Vietnam honorable withdrawal containment strategy Southeast Asia Ho Chi Minh coup d'état They started on me with Diem, you remember? “He was corrupt and he ought to be killed.” So we killed him. We all...