Abstract
Joel P. Rhodes has made an important contribution to our understanding of how children born between 1956 and 1970 experienced the Vietnam War and the larger, labyrinthine 1960s. This compelling monograph, aimed to “continue broadening our perspective of ‘the sixties’ as not simply something that happened on the West and East Coasts with maybe just Chicago and a couple of Midwestern college campuses in between,” adds much-needed texture and nuance to our understanding of 1960s America (p. 9). This story is personal for Rhodes. As he notes, “my working mother with emergent antiwar tendencies and countercultural sensibilities raised me, along with my maternal grandparents, while my father served in Vietnam between 1970 and 1971” (p. 5). Rhodes's narrative leads readers through chapters progressing from the material to the emotional. For example, children learned about the war not only from daily family viewings of Walter Cronkite's broadcasts but also from comic...
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