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New library books

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By Geoffrey C. Ward, Kenneth Burns, Wil Haygood 
| The Journal Gazette
These works of military history are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “The American Revolution: An Intimate History” by Geoffrey C. Ward, Kenneth Burns Letters, journals and period artwork drive a bottom-up examination of the Revolutionary War’s global complexities through the lived experiences of ordinary soldiers, women, Loyalists, African Americans and Native Americans.
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The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home

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By Wil Haygood 
| Bookreporter Talks To
The US involvement in the Vietnam War had been ongoing for three years and had started to consume much of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency. The promise brought about by his Great Society programs tackling poverty and civil rights issues had begun to fade as more funding was needed for the war in Southeast Asia, which also required more troops. By 1967, a disproportionate number of soldiers fighting and dying in Vietnam were African American.
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THE WAR WITHIN A WAR

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By Wil Haygood 
| Kirkus Reviews
A searing history of the Black experience in Vietnam. A sharp-edged account of the disastrous Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of its Black fighters. The author of numerous books of Black history and biography, Haygood begins with the memory of his childhood block, where six close neighbors were dispatched to fight in Vietnam.
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