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The American Experience in Vietnam
Essays discuss America's strategy during the Vietnam War, what it was like to fight there, the role of the press, the antiwar movement, and American guilt over the war
The Vietnam Reader
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Children of the Revolution
Anna Louise Strong, the daughter of Sydney Dix Strong, was born on 24th November, 1885 in Friend, Nebraska. Her father was a minister in the Congregational Church and was active in missionary work.Strong, like most people on the left, welcomed the Russian Revolution. In 1921 she travelled to Russia as a member of the Quaker Relief Mission. In 1922 she became the Moscow correspondent of the International News Service. Over the next few years Strong developed a reputation for being sympathetic to the Bolshevik government.Strong published several books on Russia including The First Time in History: Two Years of Russia's New Life(1925), Children of Revolution; Story of the John Reed Children's Colony on the Volga (1925), New Lives for Old in Today's Russia: What Has Happened to the Common Folk of the Soviet Republic (1927), How the Communists Rule Russia (1927), Workers' Life in Soviet Russia (1927) and Red Villages: The 5-year plan in Soviet Agriculture (1932)
Tangled Memories
Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship of camera images to the production of cultural memory, the mixing of fantasy and reenactment in memory, the role of trauma and survivors in creating cultural comfort, and how discourses of healing can smooth over the tensions of political events. Sturken's discussion encompasses a brilliant comparison of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt; her profound reading of the Memorial as a nat...
Home
This volume, based on a multi-institutional collaboration between the New School for Social Research and five major New York City museums, and its resulting conference in October 1990, addresses historical and contemporary meanings of home. Among the issues specifically addressed are the artistic rendition of home in art and propaganda; literary meanings of home; exile through the ages; homelessness past; homelessness and Dickens; alienation and belonging; and the home and family in historical perspective. Includes illustrations. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Freedom & Its Discontents
Evokes Thoreau in his ability...powerful stuff. --L.A. Daily News
From Slogans to Mantras
Maintains that the failure of political activism led many former radicals to become involved in such groups as the Hare Krishnas, Scientology, Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, the Jesus movement, and the Children of God, and argues that numerous activists turned from psychedelia and political activism to guru worship and spiritual quest both as a response to the failures of social protest and as a new means of achieving social change. [book cover].
Be Nobody
With an edgy tone and radical perspective, Lama Marut shows that the quest to distinguish ourselves is the true cause of our dissatisfaction, and it continually leaves us feeling isolated and alone. Drawing from the spiritual truism that only by losing the self can we discover our real potential, Be Nobody provides guidance, actions, and simple meditations to help you lay down the heavy burden of trying to be somebody.
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