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Offering a fresh perspective on the American war in Southeast Asia and superpower diplomacy during the Nixon-Kissinger years, this gripping work drawing on thousands of declassified documents and tapes to provide a startling account of the mpact of high-level decisions in Washington on people in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the United States.
Sommario
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: "This is Not Frivolous, Mr. Chairman!"
- Part I: The War
- Chapter 1:"Mired in Stalemate"
- Chapter 2:"We Will Hit Them without Warning"
- Chapter 3:"I See Death Coming Up the Hill"
- Chapter 4:"It Makes Our Position Murder"
- Chapter 5:"Blow Their Candles Out"
- Chapter 6:"You Shouldn't Kill That Many"
- Chapter 7:"The Idealists Are the Builders"
- Chapter 8:"Hit 'Em in the Gut"
- Chapter 9:"The Great Mystery of Life"
- Chapter 10:"The Greatest Success"
- Chapter 11:"Enjoy the Breeze"
- Chapter 12:"We Might Have Burned Your House"
- Chapter 13:"Something Like a Moron"
- Chapter 14:"Take A Stinking Hill"
- Chapter 15:"Everyone Was Crying"
- Chapter 16:"Bring Our Brothers Home"
- Part II: War and Diplomacy
- Chapter 17:"You've Only Got One Card"
- Chapter 18:"Man of Peace"
- Chapter 19:"Knock the Shit Out of Them"
- Chapter 20:"Seize the Hour! Seize the Day"
- Chapter 21:"The Whole Ground Shakes"
- Chapter 22:"Let Us Think of Tanya"
- Chapter 23:"Four More Years"
- Chapter 24:"You're Three for Three, Mr. President"
- Chapter 25:"Miserable, Filthy People"
- Chapter 26:"A Terrific Let-down"
- Chapter 27:"Let the Americans See Me"
- Epilogue:"We Were Serious People!"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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Carolyn Woods Eisenberg is a Professor of US History and American Foreign Relations at Hofstra University. She is the author of Drawing the Line: the American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-49, winner of the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Herbert Hoover Book Prize and a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Book Prize. She has written op-eds and done media appearances for numerous outlets, including the New York Times, National Public Radio, Fox, and C-SPAN. She has been a consultant to several members of Congress and is legislative coordinator for Historians for Peace and Democracy.
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Offering a fresh perspective on the American war in Southeast Asia and superpower diplomacy during the Nixon-Kissinger years, this gripping work drawing on thousands of declassified documents and tapes to provide a startling account of the mpact of high-level decisions in Washington on people in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the United States.
Testo aggiuntivo
With impressive fluidity... [Eisenberg] weaves together a fine-grained analysis of Nixon and Kissinger's policymaking processes with a multi-layered perspective of the domestic contexts in which they operated. The result is a book that highlights the significant roles of other US policymakers...and the US peace movement in influencing the course of US involvement in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. This is a history that deftly brings together US foreign policy with domestic policy... Eisenberg's book speaks directly to the present in its scathing and impassioned critique of the militarization of US foreign policymaking that has blinded its practitioners from genuine alternatives to violence.
