O'Nan Stewart. The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War

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Anchor, 1998 - 736 p. ISBN10: 0385491182 ISBN13: 9780385491181 (eng)

The Vietnam Reader is a selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics. All the strongest work is here, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye. Also included are incisive reader's questions useful for educators and book clubs in a volume that makes an essential contribution to a wider understanding of the Vietnam War.

This authoritative and accessible volume is sure to become a classic reference, as well as indispensable and provocative reading for anyone who wants to know more about the war that changed the face of late-twentieth-century America.

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