| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Vietnam/ edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger. |
| Reminder of title: |
the early decisions / |
| other author: |
Gardner, Lloyd C., |
| Published: |
Austi, Tex. :University of Texas Press, : c1997., |
| Description: |
228 p. ;23 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Part one. The political context. Vietnam: an episode in the cold war / Robert A. Divine -- A way of thinking: the Kennedy administration's initial assumptions about Vietnam and their consequences / Brian VanDeMark -- From the Colorado to the Mekong/ Lloyd C. Gardner -- Hanoi's response to American policy, 1961-1965: crossed signals? / William J. Duiker -- Part two. The military context. The zen of escalation: containment and commitment in Southeast Asia/ John Prados -- Conspiracy of silence: LBJ, the Joint Chiefs, and escalation of the war in Vietnam / George C. Herring -- Part three. Kennedy and Johnson. Lyndon Johnson and the legacy of Vietnam/ William Conrad Gibbons -- The Kennedy-Johnson transition: the case for policy reversal / John M. Newman -- NSAM 263 and NSAM 273: manipulating history/ Larry Bernan -- Part four. The Soviet dimension. Turnabout? The Soviet policydilemma in the Vietnamese conflict / Ilya V. Gaiduk. |
| Subject: |
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 - United States. - |
| Subject: |
United States - Foreign relations - 1961-1963. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=44708An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0292799403 (electronic bk.) |