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"I want to go back to when America had a beauty, before the White man ... Indians and braceros, blacks and white, Vietnam and Thailand, poverty and the moon program ... military, rednecks, bigoted, prejudiced, Mexican, American Indian. Eastlake is bitter, but he can see hope at the end of the strife." Dust jacket.

As the United States abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as "yellow rain," caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths. These reports prompted an investigation into allegations that a chemical biological weapon had been used against the Hmong in breach of international treaties....