The spitting image : myth, memory, and the legacy of Vietnam / Jerry Lembcke ; consulting editor: Harvey J. Kaye.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the spitting image
- Yellow ribbons and spat-upon veterans: making soldiers the means and ends of war
- Dear Spiro Agnew: about soldiers, veterans and the anti-war movement
- The Nixon-Agnew counter-offensive: "good veterans" vs. "bad veterans"
- Spat-upon veterans: the evidence (or lack thereof)
- From Odysseus to Rambo: coming home stories
- From badness to madness: the mental labeling of Vietnam veterans
- Women, wetness, and warrior dreams
- Myth, spit, and the flicks: coming home to Hollywood
- We are what we remember.
