A Country Such As This Author:James Webb The year is 1951. On the day three young men graduate from Annapolis, they vow to be blood brothers, and to stick together, as they pursue separate dreams for their country's future and their own. Red, Judd and Joe are bound together by blood and friendship and by the conviction that a nation is invicible. From the innocence of the fifties thr... more »ough the drama and turbulence of the sixties and seventies - years when America would reach out and touch the heavens, only to be defeated and torn apart by internal conflict, and a war in Southeast Asia - we follow these men, the women they love, and their children: Americans who are forced by history to reevaluate their lives, their country, and the cost of triumph. The space program, flying in formation with the Blue Angels, war in Korea and Vietnam; antiwar protests, Congress, and POW camps; love, fatherfood, divorce, reconciliation. Three men, and the women they love, whose destinies are shaped by America in our time.« less