Jerry Lembcke

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). His coauthored Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today with Monthly Review Press was released in April 2021. Jerry's opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is a regular reviewer...See more

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). His coauthored Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison to America Today with Monthly Review Press was released in April 2021. Jerry's opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is a regular reviewer for the American Library Association's Choice and has been a guest on several NPR programs including On the Media. The 2006 film Sir! No Sir! featured his book The Spitting Image. Jerry was drafted in 1968 and served as a Chaplain's Assistant with the 41st Artillery Group in Vietnam. He is presently Associate Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. See less