Why Are We in Vietnam?

…An American Dream (1965) and Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967). As with many of the postmodern novelists, his subject was the nature of power, personal as well as political. However, it was only when he turned to “nonfiction fiction” or “fiction as history” in The Armies of the Night…

…who murders his wife, and Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967) is about a young man on an Alaskan hunting trip.