WINONA Minn. – Ahead of Veterans Day, a champion for veteran causes, will discuss his three books, all flowing from his Vietnam experience, at Winona State University on Wednesday. The first book of Doug Bradley’s three books, ““We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War,” tracks the role of popular music in the American experience in Vietnam. The evebts all ree. Times:
> 9 a.m: Lecture in the history seminar “Roots, Rock and Rebels.” Minne Hall 244.
> 2 p.m.: For students. Performing Arts Center,154.
> 5:30 p.m.: Public presentation about his “We Gotta Get Out of This Place.”
> 6:30 p.m.: Reception and book-signing. Science Learning Center atrium.
Bradley is a retired University of Wisconsin executive. In Madison he created aa storefront, community-based service center for Vietnam-era veterans. Bradley was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1970 and served as a combat correspondent the newspaper Army Reporter and the magazine Uptight. He has written three books: “DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle”; “We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War,” co-authored with UW-Madison professor Craig Werner; and “Who’ll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America.” The book with Werner was named “Best Music Book of 2015” by the magazine Rollingstone.
2012: Published by Warrior Publishing Group. As audio book, 2023. 218 pages. $15.
2015: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 272 pages. $27.
2019: Warriors Publishing Group, 2020. 259 pages. $15.
Bradley. Visit a part of campus Veterans Day commemoration.