In seeing the Vietnam War through the eyes of preadolescent Americans, Joel Rhodes suggests broader developmental implications from being socialized to the political and ethical ambiguity of Vietnam.
JOEL P. RHODES is a professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University. He is the author of several books, including Growing Up in a Land Called Honalee: The Sixties in the Lives of American Children, The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era, and A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: The Life of Louis Houck.