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Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

Lindbergh Falls From Grace After Many Years Aloft

4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...

Duong Thu Huong's Novel Without a Name and Howard R. Simpson's Someone Else's War

In five pages this paper examines the depiction of the Vietnam War in a comparison and contrast of these literary works. Four oth...

The Relevance of the Air Campaign During the Gulf War

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

War in Africa

starvation (Philips). While this African nation is at peace today, the causes of this conflict, that is, "ethnic rivalry and mist...

First World War as Portrayed by the American Government

In four pages this paper discusses how the American government positively portrayed the First World War as addressed in Lights, Ca...

Born on the 4th of July, The Deer Hunter, and the Vietnam War

In five pages this paper examines how the Vietnam War was depicted in a contrasting and comparison of these 2 films. There are tw...

Tim O'Brien's If I Die in Combat

In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...

US Military Interventions During the 1950s and 1960s

the United States in Vietnam. It is not difficult to reach the simple and straightforward conclusion that in the 1950s, Eisenhowe...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

Inevitability of War

In fourteen pages Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes is referenced in this overview of war's...

U.S. Presidential Office

In eight pages this paper discusses the foreign affairs' role of the U.S. President in a consideration of Woodrow Wilson's policy ...

US Society's Polarization Regarding the Vietnam War

In five pages this paper discusses how US culture was polarized as a result of the Vietnam War and considers the media's role. Fo...

American Involvement in the First World War

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...

Sticks and Bones by David Rabe

In five pages Rabe's Tony Award Winning ode to the Vietnam War examines the unique writing style of the playwright. Nine sources ...

Labor Unions and War

Small, local, decentralized, weak-kneed affairs, where nearly every individual felt his importance, was jealous or suspicious of h...

President Lyndon B. Johnson's Role in the Perpetuation of the War in Vietnam

In seven pages the Vietnam War is examined within the context of LBJ's role in its perpetuation and military escalation and the im...

First World War and Global War Sources

use of their forces; hence these organizations tend to support belligerent foreign policies" (pp. 107). On the other hand, one may...

General William Westmoreland's Attrition Strategy During the Vietnam War

that followed (RCAH). While the United States was very much involved in the conflict, purportedly to keep peace in the world by ta...

Guerrilla Tactics and the Vietnam War

machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...

Cold War in its Early Days

In five page the Cold War as it bgan is examined in terms of key US and USSR players and the role of NATO. Four sources are cited...

The Meaning of President Bush's Contention that Desert Storm Would Not Become Another Vietnam

This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...

America After Vietnam and Books by Gibson and Englehardt

In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...

Women's Role in the Vietnam War

In five pages this essay considers women's pivotal role in the Vietnam War and its impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Vietnam Veterans and Employment Opportunities

stayed and lived in the woods or changed their identities so they would not have to go home. Some returned drug addicts. Still oth...

Factors Leading to the First World War

In six pages this paper discusses the factors that led to the First World War, the U.S. involvement, and how these issues would al...

A Critical Analysis of the Film, Hamburger Hill

This paper examines the issue of whether or not the film, Hamburger Hill, is an accurate depiction of the life of a soldier in the...

Vietnamese Perspectives on the Vietnam War

In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...

U.S. Economy and the Impact of War

In eight pages this paper discusses the U.S. economy in terms of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars and also considers...