What is included with this book?
Foreword | p. viii |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
List of Abbreviations | p. xii |
Map: Vietnam at War | p. xiv |
Rethinking the Vietnam War | p. 1 |
Rethinking the Vietnam War: Purpose and Structure | p. 2 |
The Vietnam War: Origins and Outline History | p. 5 |
Perspectives on the War: Orthodox and Revisionist Interpretations | p. 13 |
The Developing War | p. 22 |
1943-53: What If? | p. 22 |
The Eisenhower Administration | p. 26 |
Edward Lansdale: The Quiet American and Bureaucratic Politics | p. 30 |
The New Frontier | p. 35 |
Ngo Dinh Diem: Lost Leader? | p. 44 |
Lyndon Johnson's War | p. 50 |
Saigon, Hanoi, Moscow, and Beijing | p. 50 |
Johnson's Dilemmas in 1964: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | p. 54 |
The 1965 Escalation Decisions | p. 60 |
Walt Rostow: True Believer | p. 65 |
1965-67: Peace Feelers and War Developments | p. 68 |
The Tet Offensive | p. 75 |
1968: Saigon, Hanoi, and the International Context | p. 76 |
The Tet Offensive and American Reactions: January to April 1968 | p. 79 |
Eugene McCarthy: Clean for Gene in '68 | p. 85 |
Media War Coverage and Public Opinion | p. 88 |
The Role of the US Congress | p. 92 |
War Developments and Peace Talks: April to December 1968 | p. 96 |
The Election of Richard Nixon | p. 99 |
Richard Nixon's War | p. 103 |
Saigon, Hanoi, and the Transformed International Context | p. 104 |
Nixon, Kissinger, and 'Madman' Foreign Policy: 1969-70 | p. 107 |
Frank Church: Dove or Isolationist? | p. 115 |
Nixon and Kissinger: Grand Designers | p. 118 |
Towards the End: From the 1972 Easter Offensive to the Peace Agreement | p. 123 |
The Antiwar Movement | p. 132 |
Tom Hayden: Antiwarrior | p. 133 |
The Movement Develops: 1964-73 | p. 136 |
A Variegated Movement | p. 141 |
Interpreting the War: The Impact of the American Antiwar Movement | p. 147 |
International Antiwar Protest | p. 154 |
A Qualified Success | p. 157 |
The Military Dimension | p. 160 |
Poor Bloody Infantry | p. 161 |
Combatant Allies: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam | p. 168 |
The Air War | p. 172 |
William Westmoreland: Scapegoat? | p. 178 |
Alternative Strategies | p. 182 |
Better Wars, Other Wars | p. 186 |
Understanding the Vietnamese Revolution | p. 191 |
Ho Chi Minh and the Rise of Vietnamese Nationalism | p. 193 |
The Hanoi Politburo | p. 197 |
Perspectives on the War: Victory in Vietnam | p. 204 |
Le Duan: Hardliner | p. 207 |
The Viet Cong and the National Liberation Front | p. 209 |
South Vietnam: Balloon State? | p. 213 |
Endings and Reverberations | p. 220 |
The Final Act | p. 220 |
The Wider Cold War and Alliance Structures | p. 225 |
The Domino Theory and Postwar Southeast Asia | p. 230 |
US Foreign Policy | p. 235 |
Overstretch and the End of the Cold War | p. 239 |
Interpreting the War | p. 243 |
Bibliography | p. 249 |
Index | p. 287 |
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