The Muffling of Public Memory in Post-Vietnam AmericaBooks Cited in This Essay

"Should We Have War Crimes Trials?" Last fall, I read that headline to my history students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We were studying the Vietnam War, and I told them that the title came from a 1971 New York Times book-review essay by the journalist Neil Sheehan. "Can you guess whom Sheehan had in mind as potential war criminals?" I asked. A few quiet responses

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