In this history of race relations during the Vietnam War, James E.Westheider illustrates how American soldiers in Vietnam grappled with the same racial conflicts that were roiling their homeland thousands of miles away.
Nationalism, Imperialism, and the Making of the Cyprus Problem
Offering insights into modern Cypriot history through the use of US, British and Greek records, this work seeks to identify the various forces, competing interests and partisan pressures that helped to shape the Cyprus problem.
A study of the social integration of Holocaust survivors into post-war Israeli society. Drawing on a wide range of sources and personal interviews, the book examines, from all sides, the charged encounters between Holocaust survivors and the established Jewish population in Israel.
Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right
Young Americans for Freedom was a conservative political group which locked horns with the New Left and spawned many of the major figures in the contemporary conservative movement. This history of YAF describes how young conservatives, unlike their leftist counterparts, survived the 1960s.
The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
Drawing on the extensive documentary resources of the Air Force History and Museums Program, and on memoirs and interviews, this is an account of the performance of US Air Force fighter pilots in the Korean War. It examines their motivations and methods, and the effect on their personal lives.
Religion, Politics, and Morality in Contemporary America
Explaining the role of religion in conservative politics in modern America, the author reveals the religious nature of contemporary conservatism, offering an intriguing look at the social history of moral politics, and the tremulous aftershocks of the New Deal. It examines the Bush presidency and the rising influence of the Conservative Right.
Kennedy scholars and younger historians go beyond the Camelot and counter-Camelot stereotypes of JFK, drawing on recently declassified documents. They examine key issues of the Kennedy administration, including Vietnam, the Cuban missile crisis, the space race, trade policy, and Kennedy's extramari
D'Agostino (history, San Francisco State U.) argues that the end of communism was never the Soviet leader's goal, but was the unintended result of an intense and many-faceted struggle for power. He presents evidence that the hope for stable, in-system reform ignored the history of succession strugg
At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war.
