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Christian G. Appy is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity.
Tactical critiques of the war’s conduct are a distraction from U.S. imperialism.
The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.
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