Until the Last Man Comes Home POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War |
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| Author:
| Allen, Michael J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-3261-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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Allen analyzes the effects that activism by POW and MIA families had on U.S. politics before and after the Vietnam War's official end. He argues that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy...
More DescriptionAllen analyzes the effects that activism by POW and MIA families had on U.S. politics before and after the Vietnam War's official end. He argues that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy after 1968.