Spike Lee’s Vietnam War film Da 5 Bloods is “a condemnation of the past, a call for change, and a rich work of art worth watching over and over again.”
Reviews
From an American soldier in Vietnam, tragedy and poetry
James G. Hershberg reviews the book "Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam" by Daniel H. Weiss (PublicAffairs, 2019; 202 pp.). Hershberg is a professor of history and international...
How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine
A Waging Peace in Vietnam book review by Roger Bybee originally appeared at The Progressive on October 29, 2019....
The many flaws and failures of the United States in the Vietnam War
Photo: President Richard Nixon and adviser Henry Kissinger pursued too-costly strategies in Vietnam, says Max...
The Lies of War (Films): Burns, Novick, and The Vietnam War
Photo: Napalm bombs being dropped in Vietnam. Credit: Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) This spot-on review essay by...
Lansdale’s Ghost
Photo caption: Edward Lansdale in 1963. Credit: WikiCommons This book review originally appeared in the May 2018 issue...
Emile de Antonio’s ‘In the Year of the Pig’
CAPTION: An American soldier in Vietnam, as seen in “In the Year of the Pig,” a 1969 documentary film directed by...
What Ken Burns Left Out of the Vietnam Story
This piece was originally published by the LA Progressive on April 18, 2018. By Gareth Porter The Vietnam War: An...
My Lai (a book review) PART ONE
This review originally appeared at thiscantbehappening.net. March 16, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the My Lai...
How We Got From Twinkies to Tofu
This article originally appeared at the nytimes.com. By MICHAEL POLLAN HIPPIE FOOD How Back-to-the-Landers,...
G.I.s ‘Without a Country,’ Protesting the Vietnam War
Image: The struggle for racial equality and the anti-Vietnam War movement are paralleled in David Loeb Weiss’s 1968...
New Book Tells the Story of the Catonsville Nine
David Eberhardt, For All the Saints: A Protest Primer. Fed Ex Press, 2017. 138 pages. Price $20. Contact the author...
Vietnam redux
This article originally appeared at MekongReview.com. By Ron Steinman. Our review of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The...
Review of Marc Levy’s Book HOW STEVIE NEARLY LOST THE WAR AND OTHER POST WAR STORIES
2017 Marc Levy Book Review By Doug Rawlings Marc Levy's collection of "postwar stories" entitled HOW STEVIE NEARLY...
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