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The Vietnam War in American Culture

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The Vietnam War in American Culture. / Hagopian, Patrick.
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3: Endings and Legacies. ed. / Lien-Hang Nguyen; Andrew Preston; Pierre Asselin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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Hagopian, P 2022, The Vietnam War in American Culture. in L-H Nguyen, A Preston & P Asselin (eds), The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3: Endings and Legacies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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Hagopian, P. (in press). The Vietnam War in American Culture. In L-H. Nguyen, A. Preston, & P. Asselin (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3: Endings and Legacies Cambridge University Press.

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Hagopian P. The Vietnam War in American Culture. In Nguyen L-H, Preston A, Asselin P, editors, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3: Endings and Legacies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022

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Hagopian, Patrick. / The Vietnam War in American Culture. The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3: Endings and Legacies. editor / Lien-Hang Nguyen ; Andrew Preston ; Pierre Asselin. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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