Using psychological trauma as its guiding metaphor, Echoes of Combat is the first book to explore the parallels between the healing of Vietnam veterans and Americans' collective recovery from the war. Drawing on such diverse sources as films, novels, television series, political speeches, monuments, medical texts, and inside accounts of the men's movement, Fred Turner shows how the healing narratives of individuals have allowed us to transform our recollections of our aggression in Vietnam into tales of national sacrifice.

A tender love story began to bloom in a beautiful ancient setting in spite of the arrogance, the deceit and the quest for power that beset their village. Could this love survive the events that foment a coming showdown at the TOWER? The great hunter, the fisherman, the town leader, the astrologer, the ancient one and young lovers all surged toward the village centerpiece leading their followers toward victory with preservation for their principles in mind. The conclusion of the final spectacle became a towering epic that forever changed our world. It added a word to our basic vocabulary -...

Western Historical Fiction Novel - (time frame) - Civil War Period of History - (event) - Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah Mormon Territory. Nanci Cameron escapes crossing the Huricane Cliffs and the Grande Canyon to THE MOUNTAIN in Northern Arizona.

We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new, flexible models of social order. Surprisingly, he shows that it was this turn that brought us the revolutionary multimedia and...