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An insightful look into the immediate and long-term impact of the Vietnam War on a wide range of people and social groups, both Americans in the United States and in Vietnam.This collection of essays by highly respected social historians looks at the Vietnam War era through the eyes of the ordinary citizens caught up in those tumultuous times. Focusing on the period between 1961 and 1975-from the dramatic U.S. military escalation to the fall of Saigon-it offers fresh insight on the impact of the war on individuals on the home front and the battlefront.Each chapter of tnam War Era: People and Perspectives examines how a particular group of Americans interacted with the war and its related issues, among them military advisors and soldiers, the silent majority and antiwar activists, women, labor unions, African Americans, students, government leaders, veterans, the media, and religious communities. The authors draw clear connections between the stories of individual lives and the larger social movements that defined the era''s human drama.>
List of contents
Series Introduction, vii Introduction,About the Editor and Contributors, xxi Chronology, 1 Divisions within the Containment Generation: U.S. Policy Makers and the Vietnam War,
Joseph A. Fry2 "The Needs Are Enormous, the Time Short": American Advisers and the Invention of South Vietnam, 1954-1960,
James M. Carter3 Vietnam Military Personnel,
Carol Reardon4 Antiwar Activists,
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones5 The Silent Majority,
Kenneth J. Heineman6 Religious Communities and the Vietnam War,
Jill K. Gill7 Women and the Vietnam War,
Natasha Zaretsky8 Wartime Journalists,
Clarence R.Wyatt9 African Americans and the Vietnam War,
James E.Westheider10 "Labor's Falling Dominoes": The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War Era,
Edmund F. Wehrle11 Students and Political Activism,
Caroline HoefferlePrimary Documents, Reference, Bibliography, Index, 
