The Vietnam War and American Culture

by John Carlos Rowe, Rick Berg (Editor)

War veterans, journalists, poets and professors have contributed to this study which describes how US culture represented and continues to represent the Vietnam War on television, in newspapers, in military propaganda films, novels, plays and music.

290 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

John Carlos Rowe is USC Associates’ Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. From 1975-2004, he taught at the University of California, Irvine, where he was Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Director of African-American Studies, Chair of Comparative Literature (during its successful move to departmental status), Director of the Critical Theory Emphasis, and Director of the Critical Theory Institute (sponsor of the annual Wellek Library Lectures in Critical Theory and three-year research projects, both series published by Columbia University Press), which he helped found in the mid-1980s.