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Telltale Hearts shows that the movement's impact on decision-making during the war was, in the end, just not very important compared to other factors, such as the contours of normal electoral politics, the ebb and flow of battle, and the devastating misjudgments made by a series of American civil and military leaders. Antiwar activists thus deserve far less credit or blame for how the war ended than they have been accustomed to receiving, or to according themselves and each other. While Telltale Hearts shows how minor the influence of the antiwar movement really was during the actual fighting, it then follows the movement into the present to create a convincing picture of its much greater, and much underestimated, postwar influence. Adam Garfinkle takes us on a remarkable journey from the Sixties into the Nineties, searching out Vietnam as metaphor and template, memory and icon. 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From celebrities' conspiracy theories to American presidential candidates railing against anti-Semitism to the occasional news factoid that some person of interest has just discovered heretofore unknown Jewish relatives, nearly everyone wants to talk about it. Are the Jews God's chosen people? Many, Jews and non-Jews alike, think so--and about what other group is that question even asked?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is a tiny group of people who, for nearly two millennia, had no land to call their own the object of so much outsized and fanciful belief, both negative and positive? In Jewcentricity, Adam Garfinkle takes readers on a wry and learned tour of the world's obsessions with Jews. Hamas blames the financial crisis on Jews. Iranian television claims that the Harry Potter books and movies are a Ziono-Hollywood conspiracy. Mel Gibson blamed all the wars in history on the Jews. 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