Full Paper Jacket: Vietnam Book Cover Art.

This article chronicles the way book covers on American novels about the Vietnam War, both during and after the conflict, not only reflect the world of New York graphic design from 1960 onward but also mirror the United States' internal cultural struggle with the war. Having surveyed over 350 book covers, from high literary to war pulp fiction, the article concludes that only after two decades was the United States prepared to consider the Vietnam War thoughtfully, and even then it leaned toward erasure of rather than confrontation with it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]