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NightSide - Christian Appy, Author Of "American Reckoning" Discusses The Lessons We Learned From Vietnam

BOSTON (CBS) - What is the role the United States should play on the global stage? Has that role changed through the years? Christian Appy, history professor at UMass Amherst, sits down to talk about our national identity and how it has evolved throughout our nation's history. His new book, American Reckoning, examines the lessons we learned from Vietnam, the lessons we should have but failed to learn from Vietnam, and the mistakes we continue to make in our foreign policy today.

Originally broadcast February 18th, 2015.

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