Consciously written to render the Vietnamese visible in ways too few American histories of the war do . . .
Mark Philip Bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History at The University of Chicago. He is the author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950, which won the Association for Asian Studies Harry Benda Prize. He is also co-editor of Making the Forever War, Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn, and Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars.