October 6, 2015
Ronnie Foster sums up his opinion of the Vietnam War with words he attributes to his protagonist in his novel, Last Train Runnin (R.D. Foster, 415 pp.; $21.25, paper): Oh the rich kids went to…
May 8, 2015
William B. McCormick has put together a rather untypical war story in What Was I Doing There? (Hellgate Press, 132 pp., $13.95, paper). This young soldier began his tour of duty in Southeast Asia on…
February 4, 2015
Before reading Phil Tompkins's Ruff Puff: A ‘MAT’ Team Leader’s Story (Amazon Digital Services, 291 pp., $10.99, paper; $2.99, Kindle) I knew what Ruff Puff meant but had never heard of MAT. Tompkins wasted little time in…
December 16, 2014
Matthew Israel's Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War (University of Texas Press, 278 pp., $29.95, paper) fills the space that was left by Lucy Lippard’s A Different War: Vietnam in Art and…
November 5, 2014
John L. Hart, the co-author of There Will Be Killing: A Novel of War and Murder (The Story Plant, 350 pp., $14.95, paper, $9.99, e book), has been a practicing psychotherapist for more than forty years.…
October 2, 2014
In Condemned Property?: Our Most Unpopular War Continues for Americans Who Fought in Vietnam... WHY? This is Their Story and Mine (Dog Ear Publishing, 484 pp., $29, hardcover; $25, paper) "Dusty” Earl Trimmer provides a…
June 11, 2014
On August 12, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., startled the Johnson Administration---and the nation---when he spoke out for the first time in favor of ending the American war in Vietnam. "Few events in my lifetime…
December 13, 2012
Individuals with deeply held religious beliefs are often willing to carry out what they perceive to be righteous acts knowing full well that that those acts are against the law or the norms of society.…
March 5, 2012
Frank J. Rafalko's MH/CHAOS: The CIA's Campaign Against the Radical New Left and the Black Panthers (Naval Institute, 352 pp., $32.95) is an insider's account of the CIA's 1967-73 secret domestic spying program started by…