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Acknowledgments

Some years ago, my late SUNY Cortland colleague Bill Griffen and I planned to update our critical examination of the American War in Vietnam and its treatment in secondary history texts (Teaching the Vietnam War, 1979). It was not to be, however, because of his death in February 2007 from prostate cancer. I labored on this book, therefore, in the spirit of our loving intellectual and political comradeship. Bill had retired in 2006 after fifty-one years of teaching as the longest-serving professor in the history of the State University of New York.

A special thanks goes to my first and toughest reader, Jeff Cooper, for his long and patient, no-nonsense review and suggestions. I also wish to thank Bill Ehrhart, Marilyn Young, Fred Wilcox, and Jeremy Kuzmarov for their careful reading of the entire work, and Noam Chomsky for somehow finding the time to read the final chapter. Thanks also go to Philip Bennett, Carl Mirra, Edward Morgan, Jim O’Brien, and John Ryder for comments on the original proposal and individual sections; Joe Montuori, for his invaluable help on secondary history textbooks; Judy Griffen, Bill’s widow, for her steadfast support; my wife, Leslie Dwyer, who stayed the course with me over the two years of work and kept asking, “Who’s your audience?”; Michael Yates of MR Press for his editorial assistance and belief in this project; and Erin Claremont for her excellent copy editing.

I trust that all those above will find this work worthy of their efforts.