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Article: The Vietnam War and American Culture.
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- The Nation
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- January 20, 1992
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THE VIETNAM WAR AND AMERICAN CULTURE. Edited by John Carlos
Rowe and Rick Berg. Columbia University. 275 pp. $35.
It's not as if I wasn't warned. In late April 1975, Tillie Olsen was speaking at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She had just read us Tell Me a Riddle, which is about veterans of Russia's 1905 revolution growing old in 1950s America, and we were heading over to the reception. Someone ran up to tell me that the United States had begun the final evacuation of Saigon, and I passed the news on to Tillie. A few minutes later, when we were gathered around her with our hors d'oeuvres and drinks, she made the announcement. "You did ...