Jerry Lembcke is the author of eight books including The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (NYU Press, 1998) and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal (UMass Press, 2010). He is presently Associate Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

The Cult of the Victim Veteran explores the pool of American post-Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan's 1984 proclamation of a new "Morning in America" encoded the war as the moment of the nation's fall from grace; it was the meme plagiarized by Donald Trump for his "Make America Great Again" slogan.

Introduction. 1. Spectacle, Science, and War Trauma: MAGA's Tangled Back Stories 2. Shellshock: Political Cultural, Medical Minds, and Moving Pictures. 3. The Spectacle of Antiwar Warriors: Political Dissent Is Made a Medical Disorder. 4. Agent Orange: As Spectacle and Trope. 5. Traumatic Brain Injury: From News to Nomenclature. 6."Moral Injury": Its Own Spectacle. 7. Trauma in a Post-truth Era: Back to Charcot's Salon?