Title Until the last man comes home : POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War / Michael J. Allen.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (433 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome.
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-410) and index.
Contents	Introduction: The politics of loss -- Go public : the construction of loss -- For us the war still goes on : the limits of homecoming -- As it has in the past : a short history of oblivion -- Fullest possible accounting : the persistence of the past -- The wilderness years : life after death -- Highest national priority : resurrection and retribution -- Not to close the door, but to open it : the ambiguity of recovery -- Conclusion: This thing has consumed American politics for years.
Summary	Allen analyzes the effects that activism by POW and MIA families had on U.S. politics before and after the Vietnam War's official end. He argues that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy after 1968.
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Language	English.
Subject	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.
	Vietnam War (1961-1975)
	Prisoners of war -- United States.
	Prisoners of war.
	United States.
	Political activists -- United States.
	Political activists.
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Missing in action -- United States.
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence.
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Political aspects.
	United States -- Relations -- Vietnam.
	Relations.
	Vietnam.
	Vietnam -- Relations -- United States.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1945-1989
Subject	United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Chronological Term	1989-
	Since 1945
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Allen, Michael J. (Michael Joe), 1974- Until the last man comes home. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832615 (DLC) 2009002894 (OCoLC)301705717
ISBN	9780807895313 (electronic book)
	0807895318 (electronic book)
	9781469605395 (electronic book)
	1469605392 (electronic book)
	0807832618 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780807832615 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780807832615 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780807872727

Title Until the last man comes home : POWs, MIAs, and the unending Vietnam War / Michael J. Allen.

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