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Apocalypse then: American intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975

By:

TOMES Robert R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: New York University Press, 1998Description: 293pISBN:

0814782345 (hbk.):

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Summary: "The definitive account of the impact of the Vietnam War on American intellectual life". Argues that the Vietnam war shattered the erstwhile liberal intellectual consensus which existed in America. As this consensus collapsed, a New Left emerged, but the largest gains were made by neoconservatives and conservatives on the right.

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"The definitive account of the impact of the Vietnam War on American intellectual life". Argues that the Vietnam war shattered the erstwhile liberal intellectual consensus which existed in America. As this consensus collapsed, a New Left emerged, but the largest gains were made by neoconservatives and conservatives on the right.

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