| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jerry Lembcke. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. Assisted by Harvey J. Kaye. New York: New York University Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 217. $24.95.

Among the cultural images that create historical meaning about the American experience of the Vietnam War, that of the Vietnam veteran who was spat upon by antiwar protesters carries particular weight. Recent analysis of the effects of the Vietnam War in American culture has revealed that the dominant cultural narrative of Vietnam veterans has to do with their treatment after their return from the war rather than their experiences in the war. So, for example, the symbolic recognition of the veterans at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. (a memorial for the dead that is also specifically about the living) can be said to have offered recompense to veterans much more on the issue of their treatment at home than their service at war. . . .

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