Appy, Christian

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Professor, Department of History, College of Humanities and Fine Arts
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Appy
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Christian
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History
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Modern US History, Vietnam War
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Professor Appy is the author of Patriots: The Vietnam Remembered From All Sides (Viking, 2003), which was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and won the Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2004. His other works include Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (1993) and Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966 (2001). Appy also edits a book series for the University of Massachusetts Press called "Culture, Politics, and the Cold War."
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    Vietnam Rorschach
    (2003) Appy, Christian G.
    An "invisible enemy" strikes U.S. soldiers in a faraway land we claim to be saving; overwhelming American firepower kills thousands before many citizens realize their president used phony pretexts to justify military action; policy makers insist that while progress is steady we must be patient; anti-American guerrillas attack their own countrymen, whom they deem U.S. "puppets"; only a few nations send troops to support the United States' cause; talk of a "quagmire" fills the air.
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    This is another working-class war: An Interview with Christian Appy
    (2005) Appy, Christian G.
    CHRISTIAN APPY is best known for his two books dealing with the Vietnam war, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides (Penguin, 2004), and Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). His work on Patriots, which he calls “the most challenging and rewarding work of my life,” took him throughout Vietnam and the United States, talking to more than 350 people about their memories of that long and bitterly divisive war. The result is an oral history that stretches from the summer of 1945, when Americans first parachuted into northern Vietnam, to April 30, 1975, when the last U.S. helicopter flew off the roof of the American Embassy annex in Saigon. He spoke to the ISR’s JOE ALLEN. Joe Allen, a member of Teamsters Local 705 in Chicago, is author of a three-part ISR series on the history of the Vietnam War that can be found at www.isreview.org.