In the Shadow of Vietnam: Essays, 1977-1991

by W.D. Ehrhart

Overview

Twenty-three powerful, moving, angry and wise essays published over a period of 15 years on subjects ranging from South Africa to Central America, the United States to the Soviet Union, all bound together by the lingering physical, psychological, political and intellectual sensibilities the author first developed as a young enlisted Marine during the Vietnam war. Four of the essays deal with Ehrhart's second return to Vietnam in 1990.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786487745
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	03/02/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Memoirist, poet, editor, and Marine veteran, W.D. Ehrhart taught English and history at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. The author of twenty books, his prose and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Utne Reader, Reader’s Digest, American Poetry Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He was a major presence in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War.
Memoirist, poet, editor, and Marine veteran W.D. Ehrhart taught English and history at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. The author of twenty books, his prose and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Utne Reader, Reader's Digest, American Poetry Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He was a major presence in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     

On the Death of Robert Lowell     
On Michael Herr’s Dispatches     
Politics and Poetry in South Africa     
The Long Road Home to Intimacy     
An Address to Middle America     
Places and Ways to Live     
The United States Screw & Bolt Company     
Learning the Hard Way     
Waiting for the Fire     
Preserving the American Myth     
Going Back     
Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War     
Los Norteamericanos y Centroamdrica     
On Memorial Day     
Stealing Hubcaps     
On The Genre of Silence     
A Letter to McGeorge Bundy     
On Flag-Burning     
Teaching the Vietnam War     
On U.S. Policy Toward Post-War Vietnam     
Don’t Stand on Protocol     
Hue City Re-Visited     
A Common Language     
Military History of W. D. Ehrhart     

Index     
About the Author     

Editorial Reviews

As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature”—John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University; “one of the great poets and writers of nonfiction produced by the Vietnam War”—The Nation; “a valuable addition to collections on the Vietnam war.... Recommended”—Book Report; “topics include apartheid, American intervention in Central America, and the return of the author (a veteran) to Viet Nam”—Indochina Interchange.

From the Publisher

would be a valuable addition to collections on the Vietnam war.... Recommended

Book Report

one of the great poets and writers of nonfiction produced by the Vietnam War

The Nation

As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature

curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University - John Newman