CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth by Lembcke, Jerry

CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780742523289)

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CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth by Lembcke, Jerry

CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth

$26.95
CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth by Lembcke, Jerry

CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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Jerry Lembcke delves into the origins of CNN's 1998 story about U.S. soldiers in Vietnam using nerve gas on defectors and how it came to be believed, not only by those who told it, but by news reporters and the public. In his investigation, Lembcke shows that the myth of Operation Tailwind originated in the fiction of popular culture, the unreliability of memory, and the conspiracy-minded, ultra-Right wing, fundamentalist Christian community.

Author: Jerry Lembcke
ISBN-10: 0742523284
ISBN-13: 9780742523289
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2003
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.28w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1657
By Jerry Lembcke
By Jerry Lembcke
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Jerry Lembcke is associate professor of sociology at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam and several articles on the news media, popular culture, and public memory about the war in Vietnam. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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