Now in its second edition, Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam provides a fresh approach to understanding the American combat soldier¿s experience in Vietnam by focusing on the day-to-day experiences of front-line troops.
Now in its second edition, Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam provides a fresh approach to understanding the American combat soldier¿s experience in Vietnam by focusing on the day-to-day experiences of front-line troops.
Drawing on an extensive trove of written and oral sources, Longley explores how President Lyndon Baines Johnson perceived the most significant events of 1968 and how he responded. He highlights many of the challenges faced by the president during this year, which LBJ characterized as a 'year of a continuous nightmare'.
Drawing on an extensive trove of written and oral sources, Longley explores how President Lyndon Johnson perceived the most significant events of 1968 and how he responded. He highlights many of the challenges faced by the president during this year, which LBJ characterized as a 'year of a continuous nightmare'.
Using Costa Rica as an example, Longley carefully examines the development of the successful relationship between a nonindustrialized country and the United States, revealing the complex forces at work in resistance and accommodation. During World War II and the immediate postwar era, both the United States and Costa Rica experienced dramatic changes. The United States assumed world leadership and the accompanying responsibilities, Costa Rica ...
In 1966, nine young men left the Arizona desert mining camp of Morenci to serve their country in the far-flung jungles of Vietnam, in danger zones from Hue to Khe Sanh. Ultimately, only three survived. Each battled survivor's guilt, difficult re-entries into civilian life, and traumas from personally experiencing war--and losing close friends along the way.
Such stories recurred throughout America, but the Morenci Marines stood out. ABC News...
Movingly chronicles the lives, deaths, and memory of nine Marines from the mining community of Morenci, Arizona, who were transformed from happy-go-lucky high schoolers to soldiers in Vietnam. Only three of them survived the war. Their story encompasses pride, loss, grief, and the devastating impact of war on a small town.
Although he left office, Ronald Reagan remains a potent symbol for the conservative movement. This work presents the study of the interplay of politics and memory concerning our fortieth president. It scrutinizes key aspects of the Reagan legacy and the conservative mythology that surrounds it.
Best remembered as the father of Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore, Sr., worked tirelessly in politics himself, a Democratic congressman and senator from 1939 to 1971. In the first comprehensive biography of Gore, Kyle Longley has produced an incisive portrait of a significant American political leader and an arresting narrative of the shaping of a southern and American political tradition. Longley describes how this native of Possum Hollow,...
