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The Vietnam Lobby

Author : Joseph G. Morgan
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863505
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam Lobby written by Joseph G. Morgan and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1955 as a private advocacy group, the American Friends of Vietnam worked to influence U.S. attitudes and policies toward Vietnam for nearly two decades. AFV members wrote articles, gave speeches, sponsored aid drives, and forged ties with journalists, academics, and government officials in an effort to generate American assistance for South Vietnam. In The Vietnam Lobby, Joseph Morgan shifts the focus away from the much-examined antiwar demonstrations that took place in America to concentrate instead on the actions of those who endorsed U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Drawing on a wide range of documentary sources, Morgan presents a comprehensive study of the AFV and its activities. He traces the group's establishment and growth, examines its internal organization and politics, and, ultimately, evaluates its effectiveness in guiding government policy and public opinion. Morgan also assesses the charges of antiwar critics who claimed the AFV exerted an excessive, perhaps disastrous, influence in shaping America's Vietnam policy. Finally, he offers insights into the thinking of those who believed that the United States had the unique ability--even the obligation--to help shape Vietnam's future. Originally published in 1997. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Vietnam Lobby

Author : Brenda Jackson
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780453000796
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam Lobby written by Brenda Jackson and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars

Author : Mark Philip Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198043027
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars written by Mark Philip Bradley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship. Editors Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley's superb group of renowned contributors spans the generations--including those who were active during wartime, along with scholars conducting research in Vietnamese sources and uncovering new sources in the United States, former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern and Western Europe. Ranging in format from top-down reconsiderations of critical decision-making moments in Washington, Hanoi, and Saigon, to microhistories of the war that explore its meanings from the bottom up, these essays comprise the most up-to-date collection of scholarship on the controversial historiography of the Vietnam Wars.

Vietnam's Second Front

Author : Andrew L. Johns
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813139554
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Second Front written by Andrew L. Johns and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of domestic politics on the Vietnam War are revealed in this groundbreaking historical study by the author of The Price of Loyalty. In Vietnam's Second Front, Andrew L.Johns examines how American domestic politics effected the Vietnam War. He pays special attention to the role of the Republican Party, from the Nixon administration to grassroots organizations. The revealing analysis sheds new light on the relationship between Congress and the imperial presidency as they struggled for control over US foreign policy. Johns argues that, from 1961 through the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations failed to achieve victory on both fronts of the Vietnam War―military and political―because of their preoccupation with domestic politics. Johns details the political dexterity required of all three presidents and of members of Congress to maneuver between the countervailing forces of escalation and negotiation, offering a provocative account of the ramifications of their decisions. With clear, incisive prose and extensive archival research, Johns's analysis covers the broad range of the Republican Party's impact on the Vietnam War, offers a compelling reassessment of responsibility for the conflict, and challenges assumptions about the roles of Congress and the president in US foreign relations./

The Vietnam Antiwar Movement

Author : Walter L. Hixson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815335344
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam Antiwar Movement written by Walter L. Hixson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Against the Vietnam War

Author : Mary Susannah Robbins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742559141
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Against the Vietnam War written by Mary Susannah Robbins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protest movement in opposition to the Vietnam War was a complex amalgam of political, social, economic, and cultural motivations, factors, and events. Against the Vietnam War brings together the different facets of that movement and its various shades of opinion. Here the participants themselves offer statements and reflections on their activism, the era, and the consequences of a war that spanned three decades and changed the United States of America. The keynote is on individual experience in a time when almost every event had national and international significance.

The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975

Author : Tuong Vu
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745158
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975 written by Tuong Vu and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975, presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government. The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally call the "Vietnam War." The voices gift the reader a sense of the authors' experiences in the Republic and their ideas about the nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of Vu and Fear reveals that far from a Cold War proxy struggle, the conflict in Vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the communist North and the non-communist South.

Rethinking Camelot

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464458
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Camelot written by Noam Chomsky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed political critic “analyzes the issue most prominently posed in Oliver Stone’s film JFK . . . strong arguments against Kennedy mythologists” (Publishers Weekly). Rethinking Camelot is a thorough analysis of John F. Kennedy’s role in the US invasion of Vietnam and a probing reflection on the elite political culture that allowed and encouraged the Cold War. In it, Chomsky dismisses efforts to resurrect Camelot—an attractive American myth portraying JFK as a shining knight promising peace, foiled only by assassins bent on stopping this lone hero who would have unilaterally withdrawn from Vietnam had he lived. Chomsky argues that US institutions and political culture, not individual presidents, are the key to understanding US behavior during Vietnam. Rethinking Camelot is “an interesting work not only for the history it explores, but also as a study of how various individuals and groups write and interpret history” (Choice). Praise for Noam Chomsky “Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.” —The New York Times Book Review “The conscience of the American people.” —New Statesman “Reading Chomsky is like standing in a wind tunnel. With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us—and to discern what they are leaving out . . . The questions Chomsky raises will eventually have to be answered. Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening.” —Business Week “One of the radical heroes of our age . . . a towering intellect . . . powerful, always provocative.” —The Guardian

Cauldron of Resistance

Author : Jessica M. Chapman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467411
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Cauldron of Resistance written by Jessica M. Chapman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided substantial economic aid and advice to the RVN. Because of this, Diem is often viewed as a mere puppet of the United States, in service of its Cold War geopolitical strategy. That narrative, Jessica M. Chapman contends in Cauldron of Resistance, grossly oversimplifies the complexity of South Vietnam's domestic politics and, indeed, Diem's own political savvy. Based on extensive work in Vietnamese, French, and American archives, Chapman offers a detailed account of three crucial years, 1953-1956, during which a new Vietnamese political order was established in the south. It is, in large part, a history of Diem's political ascent as he managed to subdue the former Emperor Bao Dai, the armed Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious organizations, and the Binh Xuyen crime organization. It is also an unparalleled account of these same outcast political powers, forces that would reemerge as destabilizing political and military actors in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Chapman shows Diem to be an engaged leader whose personalist ideology influenced his vision for the new South Vietnamese state, but also shaped the policies that would spell his demise. Washington's support for Diem because of his staunch anticommunism encouraged him to employ oppressive measures to suppress dissent, thereby contributing to the alienation of his constituency, and helped inspire the organized opposition to his government that would emerge by the late 1950s and eventually lead to the Vietnam War.

Saigon at War

Author : Heather Marie Stur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107161924
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Saigon at War written by Heather Marie Stur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the political and cultural dynamism of the Republic of Vietnam until its collapse on April 30, 1975.

What's Going On?

Author : Marcia A. Eymann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520242440
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book What's Going On? written by Marcia A. Eymann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

South Vietnamese Soldiers

Author : Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book South Vietnamese Soldiers written by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, this book brings to life the experiences and memories of South Vietnamese soldiers-the forgotten combatants of this controversial conflict. South Vietnam lost more than a quarter of a million soldiers in the Vietnam War, yet the histories of these men-and women-are largely absent from the vast historiography of the conflict. By focusing on oral histories related by 40 veterans from the former Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, this book breaks new ground, shedding light on an essentially unexplored aspect of the war and giving voice to those who have been voiceless. The experiences of these former soldiers are examined through detailed firsthand accounts that feature two generations and all branches of the service, including the Women's Armed Forces Corps. Readers will gain insight into the soldiers' early lives, their military service, combat experiences, and friendships forged in wartime. They will also see how life became worse for most in the aftermath of the war as they experienced internment in communist prison camps, discrimination against their families on political grounds, and the dangers inherent in escaping Vietnam, whether by sea or land. Finally, readers will learn how veterans who saw no choice but to leave their homeland succeeded in rebuilding their lives in new countries and cultures.

Dissenting POWs

Author : Tom Wilber
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679103
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Dissenting POWs written by Tom Wilber and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973, Americans became riveted by POW coming-home stories. What had gone on behind these prison walls? Along with legends of lionized heroes who endured torture rather than reveal sensitive military information, there were news leaks suggesting that others had denounced the war in return for favorable treatment. What wasn't acknowledged, however, is that U.S. troop opposition to the war was vast and reached well into Hoa Loa Prison. Half a century after the fact, Dissenting POWs emerges to recover this history, and to discover what drove the factionalism in Hoa Lo. Looking into the underlying factional divide between pro-war “hardliners” and anti-war “dissidents” among the POWs, authors Wilber and Lembcke delve into the postwar American culture that created the myths of the Hero-POW and the dissidents blamed for the loss of the war. What they found was surprising: It wasn’t simply that some POWs were for the war and others against it, nor was it an officers-versus-enlisted-men standoff. Rather, it was the class backgrounds of the captives and their pre-captive experience that drew the lines. After the war, the hardcore hero-holdouts—like John McCain—moved on to careers in politics and business, while the dissidents faded from view as the antiwar movement, that might otherwise have championed them, disbanded. Today, Dissenting POWs is a necessary myth-buster, disabusing us of the revisionism that has replaced actual GI resistance with images of suffering POWs—ennobled victims that serve to suppress the fundamental questions of America’s drift to endless war.

The Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives

Author : Jayne Werner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317454006
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives written by Jayne Werner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume derives from an unprecedented seminar held at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in November 1990. At the seminar, leading Western diplomatic and military historians and Vietnam scholars met with prominent Vietnamese Communists to reflect on the Vietnam War. The book contains four parts: The Vietnamese Revolution and Political/Military strategy; the war from the American side; the war in the South and Cambodia; and retrospective and postwar issues. In addition to Jane Werner and Luu Doan Huynh, the contributors are Mark Bradley, William Duiker, David Elliott, Christine White, George Vickers, James Harrison, George Herring, Ronald Spector, Paul Joseph, Jeffrey Clarke, Ngo Vinh Long, Benedict Kiernan, Marilyn Young, Keith Taylor, and Tran Van Tra. General Tra was Commander of the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam from 1963 to 1975. His eye-opening analysis of the Tet Offensive has never before been available in English.

Ho Chi Minh

Author : Paul Slazinski
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781466266957
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Ho Chi Minh written by Paul Slazinski and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides covering the amazing and adventurous life of Ho Chi Minh the work informs the reader of the oppressive French occupation of Vietnam and the later American interferance. With his father's encouragement he leaves his home for the West to discover its weakness. Ho ends up in Paris during WWI and makes contacts with the Communists. He manages to appear at the Versailles Conference after the War to appeal for his countries independence but he is thrown out of the meeting. He goes to Moscow arriving to take part in Lenin's funeral. With Michael Borodin he heads to China to help Chiang Kai Chek free itself of the foreign occupiers. However, Chiang turns on the Communists and attacks them. Running for his life Ho ends up in British, Hong Kong where he is hidden from the Kuomintang Chinese government of Chiang. With WWII Ho is in Vietnam leading the revolt against the French and then the Japanese. The revolutionary forces, the Viet Minh, need supplies and Ho goes to visit General Stillwell in Kuming. In an attempt to get Chiang Kai Chek to release supplies to the Viet Minh, Ho goes to meet the Generalissimo in Chungking. However, he is arrested and languishes for a year in a Chinese prison. With his release he returns to Vietnam and carries on the revolt. With the Wars end Hanoi and Saigon are in Viet Minh's hands and Ho begins to negotiate a peace with the French. The problem is that the French, with American support, turn their back on the settlement Ho negotiated and send in French troops. The United States gives all out support to the French but it leads to their defeat and they pull out of Vietnam in 1954. The U.S. pushed for a divided country and ignored the 1956 election calling for united country. With the influence of the China Lobby and Cardinal Spellman Deim is made President of South Vietnam. Ho and his men fight on and with their victory near at hand President Johnson uses the United States Navy to pull a phony stunt to bring in American ground troops. In the middle of the fighting Ho dies but he knew victory was at hand. At the end of his life he was the same man as he was at the beginning. He was true to human virtues and his country.

The American War in Vietnam

Author : David Hunt
Publisher : SEAP Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780877271314
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The American War in Vietnam written by David Hunt and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses upon American involvement in the Vietnamese War.

After Vietnam

Author : Charles E. Neu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book After Vietnam written by Charles E. Neu and published by . This book was released on 2000-06-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After Vietnam four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century. In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration, disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to "revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.