Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation

MacPherson, Myra

ISBN 10: 0385158424 / ISBN 13: 9780385158428

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY U.S.A., 1984

About this Item

Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation by Myra MacPherson INSCRIBED (1984 1st Edition Hardcover in 1st Edition Dust Jacket) A Washington Post series on Vietnam Veterans led reporter Myra MacPherson to her groundbreaking classic, finalist in the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, "Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation." The first trade book to examine Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More than a decade after its publication in 1984, Arnold R. Isaacs, noted authority on Vietnam, wrote: "Any approach to the subject of Vietnam's aftermath must begin with Myra MacPherson's ground breaking book. Her book, among the first to break the long national silence on the war, remains one of the most moving and important works on the Vietnam bookshelf." Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22 wrote: "MacPherson's book belongs with the best of the works on Vietnam, and there has been no better body of war literature that I know of." Started 10 years after the war ended, interviews with Vietnam veterans, draft dodgers, protesters, objectors and with the families of those who died in the war or are still missing, provide a vivid portrait of the Vietnam generation. viii + 663pp. Hardcover has gray paper boards, black cloth spine with gold lettering on spine in a above average dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on ffep. By another owner, inscribed as a gift on pre-title page, adds no value. Interior has no illustrations. Interior is complete, tight, clean, and, except for two inscriptions, unmarked. Copyright 1984. Printed in U.S.A. Stated First Edition with no indication of later printing, 1st printing implied. Dust Jacket coded 0584, designed by David Gatti. ISBN: 0-38515842-4. LCCN: 82-45258. MSR = US $19.95. Thanks for Looking!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385158424
• ISBN 13: 9780385158428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 1 pound
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Interviews with Vietnam veterans, draft dodgers, protesters, and objectors and with the families of those who died in the war or are still missing, provide a vivid portrait of the Vietnam generation

From the Publisher

Based on more than 500 interviews, Long Time Passing is journalist Myra MacPherson's acclaimed exploration of the wounds, pride, and guilt of those who fought and those who refused to fight the war that continues to envelop the psyche of this nation.