America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia

by Seth Jacobs

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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America's commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S. anticommunism and an absence of other candidates for South Vietnam's highest office. Challenging those explanations, Seth Jacobs utilizes religion and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822334402

ISBN13:9780822334408

Release Date:January 2005

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

20th Century History International Relations Military Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Vietnam War

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