Revising Revisionism

Rick Perlstein takes a look at some of the revisionist literature on Vietnam and comes away -- unsurprisingly -- unimpressed. For more on this general subject, and in particular the malign influence the right's Vietnam revisionism has exercised, see Spencer Ackerman's piece on the other Vietnam syndrome, one of the last things he did for TNR.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/10/revising-revisionism/46508/