| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
xxxiv, 440 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
"Originally published: [New York, N.Y.] : St. Martin's Press, 1991"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-440). |
| Contents |
Ho Chi Minh : the untried gamble / Robert Shaplen -- United States, France, and First Indochina War / George C. Herring -- Dwight D. Eisenhower and wholehearted support of Ngo Dinh Diem / David L. Anderson -- Geneva, 1954 : the precarious peace / Ellen J. Hammer -- CIA comes to Vietnam / Edward Geary Lansdale -- No "non-essential areas" : Kennedy and Vietnam / Herbert S. Parmet -- Tonkin Gulf Resolution / Robert McNamara -- Groping toward escalation / Lloyd C. Gardner -- Tet Offensive / Larry Berman -- Dissenter in the government / George W. Ball -- Bombing Hanoi, mining Haiphong, and the Moscow Summit / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Failure of force / Gareth Porter -- Stabbed in the back / William Colby -- Birth of the National Liberation Front / Truong Nhu Tang ; with David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai -- People and the Americans / Konrad Kellen -- Why the communists won / William Duiker -- National Liberation Front and the land / Tom Mangold and John Penycate -- Getting hit / Philip Caputo -- Feeling cold / Wallace Terry -- Nursing and disillusionment / Lynda van Devanter -- "They did not know good from evil" / Tim O'Brien -- Assessing the military's performance / Bruce Palmer, Jr. -- Military mismanagement / Loren Baritz -- My Lai : the killing begins / Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim -- War in Laos / Timothy N. Castle -- Bombing Cambodia : a critique / William Shawcross -- Bombing Cambodia : a defense / Henry A. Kissinger -- Clash of cultures / Frances FitzGerald -- Bureaucratic tangle / James C. Thomson. Jr. -- Act of imperialism / Noam Chomsky -- Defense of freedom / Norman Podhoretz -- Perfect technowar / James William Gibson -- Working-class war / Christian G. Appy -- Seeds of a movement / Tom Wells -- Women at the barricades, then and now / Myra MacPherson -- Returning to South Vietnam / Neil Sheehan -- Deserter and his family / Gloria Emerson -- Agent Orange and the wall at home / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Letting go / Le Ly Hayslip. |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
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Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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| Added Author |
Rotter, Andrew Jon.
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| ISBN |
0842027122 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0842027130 (pbk.: alk. paper) |
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