Michael Herr's Dispatches And Vietnam
Americans have a script in their minds about war. Movies, television, books, newspapers, and music have led society to form these scripts, which in turn has created a romanticized notion of war. Michael Herr's, Dispatches completely dispels the myth of idealized combat, and instead presents in part what he refers to as a secret history of the Vietnam War. This secret history is not the official history prepared by the government, or the mass media, but rather it is a history of first-hand experience. It is the chronicle of grunts, of young men who have no convictions about the domino theory or communism, and simply want to finish their tours alive. As Herr writes, "Conventional journalism could no more reveal this war than conventional firepower could win it, all it could do was take the most profound event of the American decade, and turn it into a communications pudding, taking its most obvious, undeniable history and making it into a secret history. And the very best......
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