Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did

摘要: In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: conviction moral supremacy, assumption Americans are more idealistic than other people, and faith in technology supposedly makes invincible. He also reveals how changed today, from successes failures Washington bureaucracy to destruction traditional military code honor.