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<br> <p><b>About the Author:</b><br> H. Bruce Franklin is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark. Among his books are <i>M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America and War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination</i>. Key Points:</p> <blockquote>America's war in Vietnam was based on fantasies about both nations. Now public memory of the war has been transformed into myth. The illusion that the United States originally intervened to stop "North Vietnam" from invading "South Vietnam," the belief that returning veterans were frequently spat upon, and the fiction that American P.O.W.s were abandoned after the war—all permeate contemporary American culture, deeply influencing politics in the twenty-first century.</blockquote> <blockquote>The history of the antiwar movement has been falsified so blatantly that few Americans today would believe that by 1971 there was a revolutionary newspaper being published on every aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin or that 1500 crew members of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. <i>Constellation</i> signed a demand that Jane Fonda's antiwar show be allowed to perform on board the ship.</blockquote> <b

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Author

Howard Bruce Franklin

Publisher

Thomson-Shore, Inc.

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558493322

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14