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Index
Cover
Title Page
About the Author
Contents
The Vietnam Reader
Map of Vietnam
Introduction
Chronology of the War
Chapter 1 - Green
Robin Moore • The Green Berets (1965)
Tim O’Brien • If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973)
Tim O’Brien • Going After Cacciato (1978)
Chapter 2 - Early Work
David Halberstam • one very hot day (1967)
Tim O’Brien • If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973)
Michael Casey • Obscenities (1972)
David Rabe • Sticks and Bones (1969)
From Demilitarized Zones, Jan Barry and W. D. Ehrhart, Editors (1976)
Chapter 3 - First Wave of Major Work
Ron Kovic • Born on the Fourth of July (1976)
James Webb • Fields of Fire (1978)
Philip Caputo • A Rumor of War (1977)
Michael Herr • Dispatches (1977)
Tim O’Brien • Going After Cacciato (1978)
Chapter 4 - First Wave of Major Films
The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Apocalypse Now
Chapter 5 - Songs
“The Ballad of the Green Berets” • Barry Sadler and Robin Moore (1966)
“I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” • Country Joe McDonald (1965)
“Fortunate Son” • Creedence Clearwater Revival/John Fogerty (1969)
“The Unknown Soldier” • The Doors/Jim Morrison (1968)
“What’s Going On” • Marvin Gaye (1971)
“War” • Edwin Starr (1970)
“Born in the U.S.A.” • Bruce Springsteen (1984)
“The Big Parade” • 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant (1989)
Chapter 6 - The Oral History Boom
Mark Baker • Nam (1981)
Wallace Terry • Bloods (1984)
Keith Walker • A Piece of My Heart (1985)
From Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, Bernard Edelman, Editor (1985)
Al Santoli • Everything We Had (1981)
Chapter 7 - Second Wave of Major Work
John M. Del Vecchio • The 13th Valley (1982)
Stephen Wright • Meditations in Green (1983)
Larry Heinemann • Paco’s Story (1986)
Chapter 8 - Second Wave of Major Films
Platoon, Full Metal Jacket
Chapter 9 - Memoirs
Ronald J. GLasser, M.D. • 365 Days (1971)
Federick Downs • The Killing Zone (1978)
Robert Mason • Chickenhawk (1983)
Michael Lee Lanning • The Only War We Had (1987)
Chapter 10 - Masterwork
Tim O’Brien • The Things They Carried (1990)
Chapter 11 - Homecoming
Larry Heinemann • Paco’s Story (1986)
Louise Erdrich • Love Medicine (1984)
From Carrying the Darkness, W. D. Ehrhart, Editor (1985)
Bruce Weigl • A Romance (1985), The Monkey Wars (1979), What Saves Us (1992)
Tim O’Brien • The Things They Carried (1990)
Chapter 12 - Memory
Yusef Komunyakaa • Dien Cai Dau (1988)
Bobbie Ann Mason • In Country (1985)
Kevin Bowen • “Incoming” (1994)
Tim O’Brien • In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
John Balaban • “Mr. Giai’s Poem” (1991)
Chapter 13 - The Wall
W. D. Ehrhart • “The Invasion of Grenada” (1984)
Stewart O’Nan • The Names of the Dead (1996)
Yusef Komunyakaa • Dien Cai Dau (1988)
Glossary
Selected Additional Bibliography
Selected Additional Filmography
Reading Questions
Acknowledgments
Copyright
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