Why are we in Vietnam Author:Norman Mailer Why Vietnam? The hero of Why are we in Vietnam? us ab 18-year-old Texas Genius named D.J. a self-styled "Disc Jockey to the world" Reminiscing during a party of Dallas big wheels on the eve of his induction into the Army, the boy takes off on the frightening, scabrous, hilarious account of a hunting expedition in the wilds of Alaska, where a man... more »'s tough self-image is destroyed unless he comes back with the head of a thousand-pound Grizzer.« less