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The Scar That Binds:.American Culture and the Vietnam War. By Keith Beattie. New York: New York University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8147-9869-1. Notes. Bibliography. Pp. x, 240. $20.00.
The Vietnam War, the author makes clear, is not the subject of this book. Rather, Keith Beattie aims at the larger goal of examining American culture as it has been affected by that sad conflict. Pitched at a high theoretical, even philosophical, level, this book examines wounds to the body...