Echoes of Combat

fred turner

An analysis of the link between private trauma and public memory explains how our understanding of Vietnam has been transformed

Genres history

276 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1996

This edition

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 1, 1996 by Doubleday
ISBN: 9780385475631
ASIN: 0385475632
Language: English

About the author

Fred Turner is an American academic. He is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University, having formerly served as department chair.
Before joining Stanford as an associate professor, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. In 2015, he was appointed as Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford.
Before joining academia, Turner worked as a journalist for over ten years writing for The Boston Phoenix and Boston Sunday Globe, among others.