America's Lost War - Neu, Charles E
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In college and high school classrooms across the United States, students display a keen interest in knowing more about what they rightly sense was a pivotal event in the recent past, one that brought a sea change in the life of the nation.

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In college and high school classrooms across the United States, students display a keen interest in knowing more about what they rightly sense was a pivotal event in the recent past, one that brought a sea change in the life of the nation.
Autorenporträt
Charles E. Neu received his B.A. from Northern University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was Professor of History at Brown University from 1970 to 2003 and since 2004 has been Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is the author of many articles, chapters, encyclopedia entries, and reviews, and has written, co-edited, or edited the following books: An Uncertain Friendship: Theodore Roosevelt and Japan, 1906-1909 (1967); The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan (1975); The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link (1991); and After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War (2000). Over the years he has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Charles Warren Center For Studies in American History, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the national Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars. He has directed six NEH Summer Seminars for school teachers and college teachers, and has also given the J. Milton Nance Lecture at Texas A&M University, the Michael H. Freedman History Lecture at Roger Williams University, and the Schouler Lecture and the Albert Shaw Memorial Lecture at the John Hopkins University. At Brown he chaired the Department of History for six years and for many years taught both a seminar and a lecture course on the Vietnam War. In 1998 he received the Barrett Hazeltine Citation For Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching.
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"America's Lost War is excellent--I devouredit and learned much." --Larry McMurtry"For nearly half a century I have read scores of articles and bookson the Vietnam tragedy. This book is at the top of thelist." --George McGovern

"This intelligent synthesis will be a fine addition to TheAmerican History Series. . . . It is rare these days that I pick upa book on the Vietnam War and actually learn something new andinteresting."
-Robert K. Brigham, History Department Chair and ShirleyEcker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations,Vassar College

"A terrific book, written with detachment in a fine,clear, vivid style."
-Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of History, HarvardUniversity