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Ross Douthat is a New York Times columnist.

Reihan: The Missing Vietnam Book

By Ross Douthat
Oct 1 2007, 5:10 PM ET Comment

Rick Perlstein's very Perlsteinian review of Mark Moyar and Lewis Sorley mysteriously overlooks another revisionist account of the Vietnam War: Michael Lind's Vietnam the Necessary War. But when the Movement comes first, it's important not to confuse the issue with idiosyncratic thinkers and quirky, inconvenient interpretations.

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