Your assignment is to write reviews of two of the books that we are reading for this course. The first review should be of one of the following books: GIs and Fräuleins or Caught in the Middle East. For the second review, please write about the book you chose about the United States and Vietnam: Assuming the Burden, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam,Lyndon Johnson’s War, The Tet Offensive, or Antiwarriors.
Your reviews should be critical assessments, not merely synopses, of the books you selected. In evaluating each book, please make sure that you summarize and assess the author’s principal argument(s); their strengths and weaknesses; and the extent to which you found them persuasive. You should also comment on the author’s research and principal sources. Please give particular attention to the author’s methodology, approach to studying international history, and interpretive framework. You should evaluate the scholarly contribution of the book--to the history of U.S. foreign relations, U.S. history generally, or any other field. Of course, you should address any other issue or subject that you think important.
Your reviews should be double-spaced and 7-10 pages or 1750-2500 words long. The first review will be due on April 24, the second on May 8. You should email each review to me as an attachment, preferably in Word or WordPerfect. My email address is: pach@ohio.edu. Each review will count 15 percent toward your course grade.
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