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Author : G. W. JOHNSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780471258292
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Johnson ∗vietnam∗ - the Definitive Documentation O F Human Decisions written by G. W. JOHNSON and published by . This book was released on 1979-05 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gareth Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vietnam, the Definitive Documentation of Human Decisions written by Gareth Porter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like the resistable rise of Adolf Hitler there was nothing inevitable about our engagement in a war in Vietnam, in 'a wrong place at a wrong time.' For this war to happen, this costliest and most protracted of all our wars, hundreds of crucial decisions had to be made. Eisenhower decided not to be a signatory to the Geneva Peace Conference of 1954. Kennedy decided to send troops. Congress, on the basis of informatioon which later proved to be false, hastily passed the Tonkin Gulf Authorization. When you read and study Vietnam: The Definitive Documentation of Human Decisions you will be amazed at the amount of manpower, brain power, imagination, personal involvement and adventurousness of the decision makers that had to underlay all the documents presented in this book. One cannot study the roots of the Vietnam War nor the course of events once we were committed to it without having at hand this massive work which documents it all" --Jacket flap.
Author : Gareth Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Vietnam written by Gareth Porter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gareth Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vietnam, the Definitive Documentation of Human Decisions written by Gareth Porter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like the resistable rise of Adolf Hitler there was nothing inevitable about our engagement in a war in Vietnam, in 'a wrong place at a wrong time.' For this war to happen, this costliest and most protracted of all our wars, hundreds of crucial decisions had to be made. Eisenhower decided not to be a signatory to the Geneva Peace Conference of 1954. Kennedy decided to send troops. Congress, on the basis of informatioon which later proved to be false, hastily passed the Tonkin Gulf Authorization. When you read and study Vietnam: The Definitive Documentation of Human Decisions you will be amazed at the amount of manpower, brain power, imagination, personal involvement and adventurousness of the decision makers that had to underlay all the documents presented in this book. One cannot study the roots of the Vietnam War nor the course of events once we were committed to it without having at hand this massive work which documents it all" --Jacket flap.
Author : Michael H. Hunt
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429930683
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Lyndon Johnson's War written by Michael H. Hunt and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Hunt reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders more comprehensible--if no less troubling--the tangled origins of the war.
Author : Lyndon Baines Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers written by Lyndon Baines Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent declassification of "top secret" Vietnam War papers of the Johnson administration provides an unusually intimate portrait of presidential decision making and fills an important gap in the literature on presidents and on the Vietnam War. For years, the Pentagon Papers served as the most influential published collection of Vietnam-era policy making documents. However, as Vietnam scholar George McT. Kahin has written, the Pentagon Papers are "generally very sketchy and inadequate with respect to the political dimension; and for the critical years, 1964–1968, the gaps are particularly extensive." Drawing upon the newly declassified documents and many other Vietnam papers, David Barrett's Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam Papers fills the need for a one-volume collection detailing interaction and confrontations concerning the dilemmas of Vietnam policy. He chronologically presents notes of meetings and phone calls between President Johnson and advisers, as well as meetings with some war critics; memoranda to and from the president; and notes and letters written by friends and associates of Johnson describing his thinking and concerns about the war. This volume offers a first-hand documentation of how and why the United States fought in Indochina in the 1960s; an introduction to the archival holdings for future researchers; and documentary evidence of the major players and their roles in making policy.
Author : Brian VanDeMark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880042
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Into the Quagmire written by Brian VanDeMark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in a shambles. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor described it as a country beset by "chronic factionalism, civilian-military suspicion and distrust, absence of national spirit and motivation, lack of cohesion in the social structure, lack of experience in the conduct of government." Virtually no one in the Johnson Administration believed that Saigon could defeat the communist insurgency--and yet by July of 1965, a mere nine months later, they would lock the United States on a path toward massive military intervention which would ultimately destroy Johnson's presidency and polarize the American people. Into the Quagmire presents a closely rendered, almost day-by-day account of America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during those crucial nine months. Mining a wealth of recently opened material at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and elsewhere, Brian VanDeMark vividly depicts the painful unfolding of a national tragedy. We meet an LBJ forever fearful of a conservative backlash, which he felt would doom his Great Society, an unsure and troubled leader grappling with the unwanted burden of Vietnam; George Ball, a maverick on Vietnam, whose carefully reasoned (and, in retrospect, strikingly prescient) stand against escalation was discounted by Rusk, McNamara, and Bundy; and Clark Clifford, whose last-minute effort at a pivotal meeting at Camp David failed to dissuade Johnson from doubling the number of ground troops in Vietnam. What comes across strongly throughout the book is the deep pessimism of all the major participants as things grew worse--neither LBJ, nor Bundy, nor McNamara, nor Rusk felt confident that things would improve in South Vietnam, that there was any reasonable chance for victory, or that the South had the will or the ability to prevail against the North. And yet deeper into the quagmire they went. Whether describing a tense confrontation between George Ball and Dean Acheson ("You goddamned old bastards," Ball said to Acheson, "you remind me of nothing so much as a bunch of buzzards sitting on a fence and letting the young men die") or corrupt politicians in Saigon, VanDeMark provides readers with the full flavor of national policy in the making. More important, he sheds greater light on why America became entangled in the morass of Vietnam.
Author : Lloyd C. Gardner
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pay Any Price written by Lloyd C. Gardner and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1997 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyndon Johnson brought to the presidency a political outlook steeped in New Deal liberalism and the idea of government intervention for the public good--at home or abroad. Seeking to fulfill John Kennedy's pledge in Southeast Asia, LBJ constructed a fatal coupling of the Great Society and the anti-Communist imperative. Pay Any Price is Lloyd Gardner's riveting account of the fall into Vietnam; of behind-the-scenes decision-making at the highest levels of government; of miscalculation, blinkered optimism, and moral obtuseness. Blending political biography with diplomatic history, Gardner has written the first book on American involvement in the Vietnam War to use the full resources and newly declassified documents of the Johnson Library, and to tell whole the story of Johnson and Vietnam. The book is filled with fresh interpretations, brilliantly incisive portraits of the president and his men, and new perspectives on America's most divisive foreign war. Gardner describes for the first time how, as tragedy swirled around the deliberations in Washington, Clark Clifford and Dean Rusk struggled for the president's soul, culminating in the bombing halt of 1968 and the Johnson decision not to run. The war finally sundered the liberal cold war consensus, Gardner argues, and brought to an end the New Deal politics that had dominated American political life since 1933. Pay Any Price is a major work of history by one of our most distinguished historians.
Author : Sheilagh M. Myatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book The Vietnam War and the Restricted Choices of Lyndon B. Johnson written by Sheilagh M. Myatt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Uncertain Warriors written by David M. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyndon Johnson, when it comes to his role in the Vietnam war, is popularly portrayed as an irrational hawkish leader who bullied his advisers and refused to solicit a wide range of opinions. That depiction, David Barrett, argues, is simplistic and far from accurate.
Author : David E. Kaiser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674006720
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)
Download or read book American Tragedy written by David E. Kaiser and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-creation of the deliberations, actions, and deceptions that brought two decades of post-World War II confidence to an end, this book offers an insight into the Vietnam War at home and abroad - and into American foreign policy in the 1960s.
Author : George C. Herring
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292749007
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book LBJ and Vietnam written by George C. Herring and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] compelling analysis . . . A solid addition to our understanding of the Vietnam War and a president.” —Publishers Weekly The Vietnam War remains a divisive memory for Americans—partisans on all sides still debate why it was fought, how it could have been better fought, and whether it could have been won at all. In this major study, a noted expert on the war brings a needed objectivity to these debates by examining dispassionately how and why President Lyndon Johnson and his administration conducted the war as they did. Drawing on a wealth of newly released documents from the LBJ Library, including the Tom Johnson notes from the influential Tuesday Lunch Group, George Herring discusses the concept of limited war and how it affected President Johnson’s decision making, Johnson’s relations with his military commanders, the administration’s pacification program of 1965–1967, the management of public opinion, and the “fighting while negotiating” strategy pursued after the Tet Offensive in 1968. This in-depth analysis, from a prize-winning historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, exposes numerous flaws in Johnson’s approach, in a “concise, well-researched account” that “critiques Johnson's management of the Vietnam War in terms of military strategy, diplomacy, and domestic public opinion” (Library Journal).
Author : Lloyd C. Gardner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292735162
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Vietnam written by Lloyd C. Gardner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines the turmoil and conflicting advice that led the US into Vietnam and the roles played by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. For many Americans, Oliver Stone’s film JFK left no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had determined to quit Vietnam. Yet the historical record offers a more complex view. In this fresh look at the archival evidence, noted scholars take up the challenge to provide us with their conclusions about the early decisions that put the United States on the path to the greatest American tragedy since the Civil War. The book is divided into four sections. Parts one and two delve into the political and military contexts of the early decisions. Part three raises the intriguing questions of Kennedy’s and Johnson's roles in the conflict, particularly the thorny issue of whether Kennedy did, in fact, intend to withdraw from Vietnam and whether Johnson reversed that policy. Part four reveals an uncanny parallel between early Soviet policy toward Hanoi and US policy toward Saigon.
Author : David L. Anderson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231507380
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War written by David L. Anderson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive administrations choose little-known Vietnam as the "test case" of American commitment in the fight against communism? Why were the "best and brightest" apparently blind to the illegitimacy of the state of South Vietnam? Would Kennedy have pulled out had he lived? And what lessons regarding American foreign policy emerged from the war? The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War helps readers understand this tragic and complex conflict. The book contains both interpretive information and a wealth of facts in easy-to-find form. Part I provides a lucid narrative overview of contested issues and interpretations in Vietnam scholarship. Part II is a mini-encyclopedia with descriptions and analysis of individuals, events, groups, and military operations. Arranged alphabetically, this section enables readers to look up isolated facts and specialized terms. Part III is a chronology of key events. Part IV is an annotated guide to resources, including films, documentaries, CD-ROMs, and reliable Web sites. Part V contains excerpts from historical documents and statistical data.
Author : Mark Atwood Lawrence
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199793158
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Vietnam War written by Mark Atwood Lawrence and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels between that conflict and more recent fighting in the Middle East. In The Vietnam War, Mark Atwood Lawrence draws upon the latest research in archives around the world to offer readers a superb account of a key moment in U.S. as well as global history. While focusing on American involvement between 1965 and 1975, Lawrence offers an unprecedentedly complete picture of all sides of the war, notably by examining the motives that drove the Vietnamese communists and their foreign allies. Moreover, the book carefully considers both the long- and short-term origins of the war. Lawrence examines the rise of Vietnamese communism in the early twentieth century and reveals how Cold War anxieties of the 1940s and 1950s set the United States on the road to intervention. Of course, the heart of the book covers the "American war," ranging from the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem to the impact of the Tet Offensive on American public opinion, Lyndon Johnson's withdrawal from the 1968 presidential race, Richard Nixon's expansion of the war into Cambodia and Laos, and the problematic peace agreement of 1973, which ended American military involvement. Finally, the book explores the complex aftermath of the war--its enduring legacy in American books, film, and political debate, as well as Vietnam's struggles with severe social and economic problems. A compact and authoritative primer on an intensely relevant topic, this well-researched and engaging volume offers an invaluable overview of the Vietnam War.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prologue written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wynn Wilcox
Publisher : SEAP Publications
ISBN 13 : 0877277826
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Vietnam and the West written by Wynn Wilcox and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sound interpretation of Vietnamese cultural attitudes contends that a major reason for American difficulties in Viet-Nam has been the failure to appreciate how wide the gulf is between Viet-Nam and the West. Professor Smith first describes Vietnamese political and social traditions and shows how they were challenged by the West after 1858. He examines Viet-Nam's search for independence and modernization in the first half of this century, contrasts the two governments of the partitioned country during the years 1954-1963, and stresses the critical need to reassess attitudes toward Viet-Nam. His sophisticated, ambitious survey of Viet-Nam history will have a lasting value that sets it apart from the scores of ephemeral books on this country.
