My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)) - Softcover

Olson, James S.; Roberts, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312142277 ISBN 13: 9780312142278

Verlag: Macmillan Education, 1998

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Combining unpublished testimony with a collection of eyewitness accounts and reports from investigators, My Lai chronicles this disturbing event from the Vietnam War which challenged students' notions of American virtue during that time.

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James S. Olson is a Distinguished Professor ofHistory at Sam houston State University. He is a historian of recent U.S. history as well as popular culture. He also has a special interest in Vietnam and has edited the Dictionary of the Vietnam War (19988) and written The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research (1993) and, with Randy Roberts, Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, Second Edition (1996). Olson is the author of many other books and articles, including The Ethnic Dimenion in American History, Second Edition (1995); Saving Capitalism (1988); amd, with Randy Roberts, John Wayne: American (1995).
Randy Roberts is professor of history at Purdue University. His primary research areas are sports and popular culture within the larger context of recent American histroy. He is an award-winning biographer and is highly visible in the field of post-1945 American history. Among his more important books are Heavy Justice: The State of Indiana v. Michael G. Tyson (1994); Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler (1979); and Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes (1983). Roberts has served frequently as a consultant for PBS News, HBO, and the History Channel.

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• Verlag: Macmillan Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312142277
• ISBN 13: 9780312142278
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222
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