M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America

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M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America

H. Bruce Franklin

Rutgers University Press, 1993

Expanded and updated ed

  • : pbk

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M.I.A

Mythmaking in America

MIA, or, Mythmaking in America

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Originally published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 1992

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-242) and index

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This paperback edition of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America adds major new material about Ross Perot's role, the 1991-1992 Senate investigation, and illegal operations authorized by Ronald Reagan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface to the Expanded and Updated Edition Preface Prisoners of Myth A National Religion? But Are There Live POWs? Prisoners of the War The Matrix of the POW/MIA Issue The "Go Public" Campaign Enter VIVA and the Bracelets Four More Years of War for the POW/MIAs Peace for the POWs Counting on Discrepancies The POWs in War and Peace The Missing of Peace War Remains VIVA and the National League of Families Continue the War The Pentagon's New Math The Case of the Disappearing POWs The Multiplication of the POWs What Did Happen to the Missing Men? Cambodia Laos Vietnam: Or What the Garwood Case Really Shows "Live Sightings" Why? Reparations and POWs Mythmaking in America Crucifixion and Resurrection Hollywood Heroes I: Bo Gritz and Ronald Reagan Hollywood Heroes II: Gene Hackman and Chuck Norris Hollywood Heroes III: Rambo The Plots Thicken Still Missing Recovery A Story of the Missing and the Missing Story "The Last Chapter"? "POW/MIA" Appendix A: From the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet-Nam, Signed in Paris, January 27, 1973 Appendix B: The Secret Nixon Letter Glossary Notes Index

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