| Description |
xvi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
The United States and the Vietnam War ; 3 |
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United States and the Vietnam War ; 3
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| Contents |
Vietnam and the 1964 Election: A Defense of Lyndon Johnson / Mitchell Lerner -- The Mythology Surrounding Lyndon Johnson, His Advisers, and the 1965 Decision to Escalate the Vietnam War / David M. Barrett -- Coming to Grips with Lyndon Johnson's War / Larry Berman -- What Did Eisenhower Tell Kennedy about Indochina? The Politics of Misperception / Fred I. Greenstein and Richard H. Immerman -- The Vietnam War, 1964-1969: A Chinese Perspective / Xiaoming Zhang -- Beijing and the Vietnam Conflict, 1964-1965: New Chinese Evidence / Qiang Zhai -- Soviet Policy towards US Participation in the Vietnam War / Ilya V. Gaiduk -- Viet Nam and U.S. Diplomacy, 1940-1970 / Paul M. Kattenburg -- First among Critics: Walter Lippmann and the Vietnam War / Fredrik Logevall -- The Swedish-American Conflict over Vietnam / Fredrik Logeval -- Presidential Decisionmaking and Vietnam: Lessons for Strategists / Joseph R. Cerami -- Dixie's Dove: J. William Fulbright, the Vietnam War, and the American South / Randall Bennett Woods -- Containment on the Perimeter: George F. Kennan and Vietnam / Walter L. Hixson -- The 1968 Presidential Election and Peace in Vietnam / Kent G. Seig -- Asia After Viet Nam / Richard M. Nixon -- The Viet Nam Negotiations / Henry A. Kissinger -- How Wars End: The Vietnam War / Jeffrey Kimball |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Political leadership -- United States.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
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World politics -- 1945-1955.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140101
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| Author |
Hixson, Walter L.
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| LC no. |
00030860 |
| ISBN |
081533530X (6 v. set) |
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0815335334 (alk. paper) |
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(6 v. set) |
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