The Resource Lyndon Johnson's war : America's cold war crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968, Michael H. Hunt
Lyndon Johnson's war : America's cold war crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968, Michael H. Hunt
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- Summary
- The Vietnam War, perhaps the mast controversial war Americans have ever fought, remains a source of pain and perplexity. Why did Lyndon Johnson commit the United States to fight? Why did he fail to act more decisively once he resolved on war? And why didn't he take the American public into his confidence? These questions have troubled historians since the end of the war, but the answers have been buried in inaccessible documents. Now Michael H. Hunt uses newly available sources from both American and Vietnamese archives to reevaluate how and why the war started and then escalated. He examines the ideological, strategic, political, and institutional pressures that in the 1950s propelled the Truman and Eisenhower administrations toward intervention in Indochina; the reasons why Kennedy's and Johnson's policymakers believed that a limited war could be fought there; Johnson's early position on Vietnam and his decision to intensify U.S. involvement in the war; and, finally, the tragic consequences of the Vietnam War both at home and abroad. Throughout, he discusses the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention, thus rendering more comprehensible - if no less troubling - the tangled origins of the Vietnam War
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- ix, 146 pages
- Contents
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- The Cold War world of The Ugly American
- Ho Chi Minh's brocade bags
- Learned academics on the Potomac
- "That bitch of a war"
- How heavy the reckoning?
- Isbn
- 9780809050239
- Label
- Lyndon Johnson's war : America's cold war crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968
- Title
- Lyndon Johnson's war
- Title remainder
- America's cold war crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael H. Hunt
- Subject
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- Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975) -- États-Unis
- Johnson, Lyndon B
- Johnson, Lyndon B., (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Johnson, Lyndon Baines, ((1908-1973))
- USA
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam
- Viet-Nam -- 1945-1975
- Viet-Nam -- Relations extérieures -- États-Unis
- Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States
- Vietnam-oorlog
- Vietnamkrieg
- États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- Viet-Nam
- Etats-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- Viet-Nam -- 1945-1970
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Vietnam War, perhaps the mast controversial war Americans have ever fought, remains a source of pain and perplexity. Why did Lyndon Johnson commit the United States to fight? Why did he fail to act more decisively once he resolved on war? And why didn't he take the American public into his confidence? These questions have troubled historians since the end of the war, but the answers have been buried in inaccessible documents. Now Michael H. Hunt uses newly available sources from both American and Vietnamese archives to reevaluate how and why the war started and then escalated. He examines the ideological, strategic, political, and institutional pressures that in the 1950s propelled the Truman and Eisenhower administrations toward intervention in Indochina; the reasons why Kennedy's and Johnson's policymakers believed that a limited war could be fought there; Johnson's early position on Vietnam and his decision to intensify U.S. involvement in the war; and, finally, the tragic consequences of the Vietnam War both at home and abroad. Throughout, he discusses the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention, thus rendering more comprehensible - if no less troubling - the tangled origins of the Vietnam War
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hunt, Michael H
- Dewey number
- 959.704/3373
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS558
- LC item number
- .H85 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Critical issue
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- United States
- Vietnam
- Vietnam
- Johnson, Lyndon Baines
- Johnson, Lyndon B
- Vietnam
- Vietnam-oorlog
- Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975)
- États-Unis
- Viet-Nam
- Viet-Nam
- Etats-Unis
- Vietnamkrieg
- USA
- Label
- Lyndon Johnson's war : America's cold war crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968, Michael H. Hunt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-139) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Cold War world of The Ugly American -- Ho Chi Minh's brocade bags -- Learned academics on the Potomac -- "That bitch of a war" -- How heavy the reckoning?
- Control code
- 33668354
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- ix, 146 pages
- Isbn
- 9780809050239
- Lccn
- 95026361
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)33668354
- Label
- Lyndon Johnson's war : America's cold war crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968, Michael H. Hunt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-139) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Cold War world of The Ugly American -- Ho Chi Minh's brocade bags -- Learned academics on the Potomac -- "That bitch of a war" -- How heavy the reckoning?
- Control code
- 33668354
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- ix, 146 pages
- Isbn
- 9780809050239
- Lccn
- 95026361
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)33668354
Subject
- Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975) -- États-Unis
- Johnson, Lyndon B
- Johnson, Lyndon B., (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Johnson, Lyndon Baines, ((1908-1973))
- USA
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam
- Viet-Nam -- 1945-1975
- Viet-Nam -- Relations extérieures -- États-Unis
- Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States
- Vietnam-oorlog
- Vietnamkrieg
- États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- Viet-Nam
- Etats-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- Viet-Nam -- 1945-1970
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