Volume 38, Number 16 · October 10, 1991
Reconsidering Vietnam
By Jonathan Mirsky
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Vietnam: Citizens Detained for Peaceful Expression
Asia Watch/Human Rights Watch, 11 pp., $2.45
A Vietnam Reader
by Walter Capps
Routledge, 316 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province
by Eric M. Bergerud
Westview Press, 383 pp., $32.00
Strange Ground: An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam, 1945–1975
by Harry Maurer
Avon, 634 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Vietnam Wars: 1945–1990
by Marilyn B. Young
HarperCollins, 386 pp., $11.00 (paper)
War by Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in Viet-Nam 1954–60
by Carlyle A. Thayer
Allen and Unwin, 256 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Vietnam at War: The History: 1946–1975
by Phillip B. Davidson
Oxford University Press, 838 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country
by Justin Wintle
Pantheon, 466 pp., $25.00
Remembering Heaven's Face: A Moral Witness in Vietnam
by John Balaban
Poseidon Press, 334 pp., $21.95
'That war cleaves us still.' On January 20, 1989, George Bush included these words in his inaugural address. He followed them with the plea, 'But friends, that was begun in earnest a quarter of a century ago. Surely the statute of limitations has been reached.' Then came advice: 'The final lesson of Vietnam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory.'
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