America After Vietnam
From Anguish to Healing

This work examines the Vietnam War, the impact on America's national psyche, its effect on veterans and emigres, and the myths surrounding the war and the veterans. It focuses on the postwar healing process and attitudes to the Vietnamese people, and the process of Washington-Hanoi rapprochement.

Dealing with the wide range of issues facing the post-Vietnam history of the United States, this work examines: the ultimate meanings of the Vietnam War to America; the war's impact on America's national psyche, on US popular culture and academia; its residual effect with respect to veterans and emigres; "revisionist" historicism; needs to rectify some inaccurate myths surrounding the war and the Vietnam veterans; the postwar healing process in America; postwar attitudes to the Vietnamese people toward the war and the American people; the MIA issue; and the process of Washington-Hanoi rapprochement. The purpose of this book is not to refight the controversial Vietnam War, but to express a desire to heal America's psychic wounds.

The agony of blunder
the cycle of letdown
the process of healing
the missing-in-action (MIA) issue
conclusion - farewell to the old bitter war.