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Lyndon Johnson's War

America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968

Hill and Wang, August 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8090-1604-4, ISBN10: 0-8090-1604-4,
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 160 pages, Includes maps, reading list, notes, and an index,
Trade Paperback, $14.00

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See All Categories Asian & Asian American Studies Asian & Asian American Studies - All Titles History United States: 1945 to Present United States: Hill & Wang Critical Issues Series Political Science United States & Canada

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. This brief study thus renders more comprehensible—if no less troubling—the tangled origins of the war.

Lyndon Johnson's War is part of the celebrated Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series, which offers several concise and affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.

Praise

"A readable and penetrating account of America's tragic experience in Vietnam by one of the nation's leading diplomatic historians. Hunt brings to this account the insights of a specialist in both American and East Asian history—a combination few can match."—Michael J. Hogan, Ohio State University

"Elegant and achingly sad. This brilliant primer on the war in Vietnam is a powerful indictment of American arrogance and paternalism. Hunt engages in no diatribes, delivers no cheap shots, assigns no blame easily. Instead, by treating the Vietnamese side of the story with sensitivity and depth, he exposes the fundamental ethnocentrism of the American war planners and of traditional accounts of the war."—Piero Gleijeses, The Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies

"A tragic tale, told by a talent, full of sound and fury, and signifying quite a lot. In addition to providing a skillful and engaging account of the long escalation, though in mercifully short compass, Hunt draws attention to the right lessons."—Foreign Affairs

"Immensely valuable. Like the war itself, it 'offers no easy answers—and no simple moral judgments.' "—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

About the Author(s)

Michael H. Hunt

Michael H. Hunt, the Everett H. Emerson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a leading scholar of U.S.-East Asian relations. Among his many books are Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader and The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy.

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