| Description |
1 online resource (x, [16] pages of plates, 562 pages) : 1 map, photographs |
| Contents |
Introduction : toward a tragedy -- Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam : averting a quagmire -- Democracy at bay : Diem as mandarin -- Counteraction to counterinsurgency : the military solution -- Waging a secret war -- Subterfuge in the delta -- Strange seduction of Vietnam -- Decent veil of hypocrisy -- De-Americanizing the secret war -- From escalation to disengagement -- End of the tunnel? A comprehensive plan for South Vietnam -- Mandate from heaven? The Buddhist crisis and the demise of de-escalation -- Fire this time -- Road to a coup -- At the brink of a coup--again -- Toward a partial withdrawal -- President Kennedy's decision to withdraw -- Fall of the house of Ngo -- Conclusion : the tragedy of JFK |
| Summary |
Jones delivers an informative narrative documenting in rather elaborate detail a popular theory of JFK and Vietnam advanced previously by such writers as Richard Mahoney and Richard Reeves: that had Kennedy lived, US involvement in Vietnam would not have escalated as it did |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-546) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination
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Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963 -- Assassination
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| SUBJECT |
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 fast |
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Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963 fast |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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Vietnam Conflict
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HISTORY -- Military -- Vietnam War.
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Assassination
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198021971 |
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0198021976 |
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9780195052862 |
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0195052862 |
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9780199850051 |
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0199850054 |
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