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BL
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| Record Number
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702494
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b524683
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| Main Entry
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Spanos, William V.
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| Title & Author
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American exceptionalism in the age of globalization : : the specter of Vietnam /\ William V. Spanos.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, [2008]
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, ©2008
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xx, 321 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0791472892 (alk. paper)
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: 0791472906 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780791472897 (alk. paper)
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: 9780791472903 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-306) and index.
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| Contents
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History and its specter : rethinking thinking in the post-Cold War age -- Althusser's "problematic" : vision and the Vietnam War -- Who killed Alden Pyle? : the oversight of oversight in Graham Greene's The quiet American -- Retrieving the thisness of the Vietnam War : a symptomatic reading of Philip Caputo's A rumor of war -- "The land is your enemy" : Tim O'Brien's Going after Cacciato -- American exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the frontier, before and after 9/11 : from the Puritans to the neo-con men -- Conclusion : the Vietnam War, 9/11, and its aftermath.
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| Subject
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American literature-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- History and criticism.
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Literature and history-- United States.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Literature and the war.
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America, In literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/358
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| LC Classification
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PS169.N35S63 2008
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