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992673
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b747043
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| Main Entry
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Allen, Michael J., (Michael Joe),1974-
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| Title & Author
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Until the last man comes home : : POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War /\ Michael J. Allen.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (433 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0807832618
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: 0807895318
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: 1469605392
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: 9780807832615
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: 9780807895313
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: 9781469605395
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9780807832615
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9780807872727
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-410) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: The politics of loss -- Go public : the construction of loss -- For us the war still goes on : the limits of homecoming -- As it has in the past : a short history of oblivion -- Fullest possible accounting : the persistence of the past -- The wilderness years : life after death -- Highest national priority : resurrection and retribution -- Not to close the door, but to open it : the ambiguity of recovery -- Conclusion: This thing has consumed American politics for years.
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| Abstract
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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 after 1968.
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Political activists-- United States.
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Prisoners of war-- United States.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Influence.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Missing in action-- United States.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Political aspects.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.
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Buddhism and politics.
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HISTORY-- Military-- Vietnam War.
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HISTORY-- United States-- 20th Century.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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International relations.
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Missing in action.
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Political activists.
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Politics and government.
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Prisoners of war.
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United States, Politics and government, 1945-1989.
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United States, Politics and government, 1989-
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United States, Relations, Vietnam.
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Vietnam, Relations, United States.
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United States.
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Vietnam.
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| Dewey Classification
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959.704/37
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| LC Classification
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DS559.4.A44 2009eb
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