Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975Simon and Schuster, 15 de nov. 2000 - 768 pàgines Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research Nonfiction Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth delivers an authoritative account of the war based on official documents not available earlier and on new reporting from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. In Our Vietnam, Langguth takes us inside the waffling and deceitful White Houses of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; documents the ineptness and corruption of our South Vietnamese allies; and recounts the bravery of soldiers on both sides of the war. With its broad sweep and keen insights, Our Vietnam brings together the kaleidoscopic events and personalities of the war into one engrossing and unforgettable narrative. |
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... Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ho was revered in the North for his commitment to independence and unity. Le Duan(1908–1986) first enlisted in Ho's youth movement in 1928 and rose in the Communist ranks. He replaced Truong Chinh as ...
... Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ho was revered in the North for his commitment to independence and unity. Le Duan(1908–1986) first enlisted in Ho's youth movement in 1928 and rose in the Communist ranks. He replaced Truong Chinh as ...
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... Democratic senator from Arkansas and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, won approval for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in August 1964, but by early 1966 chaired hearings to give a platform to antiwar spokesmen. John ...
... Democratic senator from Arkansas and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, won approval for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in August 1964, but by early 1966 chaired hearings to give a platform to antiwar spokesmen. John ...
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... Democratic nomination in 1968 as an antiwar candidate. His strong showing in the New Hampshire primary encouraged Robert Kennedy to make the race. John McCone (1902–1991), director of the CIA from 1961 to 1965, strongly supported Diem ...
... Democratic nomination in 1968 as an antiwar candidate. His strong showing in the New Hampshire primary encouraged Robert Kennedy to make the race. John McCone (1902–1991), director of the CIA from 1961 to 1965, strongly supported Diem ...
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... Democrat. Kennedy's sharpest criticism had come in a campaign promise to “get the country moving again.” Eisenhower might have resented the implication of stagnation and drift, but both he and Kennedy remembered the rancor between ...
... Democrat. Kennedy's sharpest criticism had come in a campaign promise to “get the country moving again.” Eisenhower might have resented the implication of stagnation and drift, but both he and Kennedy remembered the rancor between ...
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... Democrats' beloved dowager had paused in her attack to grant that young Kennedy had “an enormous amount of charm.” Kennedy's charm was working that ... Democratic primary elections, Jack Kennedy continued to use KENNEDYAND HO, 1960 29.
... Democrats' beloved dowager had paused in her attack to grant that young Kennedy had “an enormous amount of charm.” Kennedy's charm was working that ... Democratic primary elections, Jack Kennedy continued to use KENNEDYAND HO, 1960 29.
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