| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.2

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Jim McGarrah. A Temporary Sort of Peace. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007. Pp. 251. Illustrations. Cloth, $19.95.

Christian Appy argues in his landmark 1993 study, Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam, that the voices of Vietnam veterans have long been marginalized in American culture. Even before Appy's book appeared, however, and certainly in the fifteen years since it was published, we have witnessed a veritable flood of Vietnam-era memoirs and oral histories representing veterans from a diverse cross-section of American life. From well-known authors like Tim O'Brien, Ron Kovic, and Philip Caputo, to lesser-known veterans like Frederick Downs and Robert Tonsetic, a quick search of any bookstore will quickly confirm that those voices, which initially may have been silenced in the 1970s, are today in search of neither words nor audiences.

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