Long time passing : Vietnam and the haunted generation

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Long time passing : Vietnam and the haunted generation

Myra MacPherson

Indiana University Press, c2001

New ed

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984

Includes bibliographical references (p. [673]-678) and index

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Description

This new edition of a classic book on the impact of the Vietnam War on Americans reintroduces the haunted voices of the Vietnam era to a new generation of readers. In a new introduction, Myra MacPherson reports on the legacy of the war and its impact on contemporary political life, interviews a number of her principal characters to bring their stories up to date, and reflects on what has changed, and what hasn't, for the haunted generation in the years since these interviews were conducted.

Table of Contents

  • Part I Long time passing: two soldiers
  • the generation
  • a different war
  • Southie and the rebels. Part II Draft and protest: draft board blues
  • the chosen
  • the maimed
  • hawks and doves
  • the scams
  • the Reserves and National Guard
  • game of chance
  • confessions
  • impressions. Part III Still in Saigon: post-traumatic stress
  • the afflicted
  • the criminals
  • the vet centres
  • the disordered
  • the significant others. Part IV Making it successful: veterans
  • from losers to winners
  • the wounded. Part V Resistance: the deserters
  • the exiles
  • the imprisoned. Part VI Women and the war: mothers and fathers
  • the Supp-Hose Five
  • the warriors
  • women at the barricades. Part VII Vietnam kaleidoscope: atrocities
  • the reluctant warriors
  • the warriors
  • the blacks
  • drugs, bad paper, prison
  • Agent Orange.

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