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9780802133625

Vietnam and America The Most Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780802133625

  • ISBN10:

    0802133622

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-07-14
  • Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC, INC.

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Summary

No single event since World War II has marked this country’s foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is a complete history of the war, as documented in essays by leading experts and in original source material. With generous selections from the documentary records, the book dispels distortions and illuminates in depth the many facets of the war, from Vietnam’s history before the war, to Washington’s insider policy making, to troop perspectives, to the impact back on the home front. In essays introducing each major stage of the war, the editors elucidate the issues, foreign policy choices, and consequences of U.S. involvement. Substantial headnotes put each document in historical perspective. This comprehensive anthology is an invaluable reference for anyone who wants to understand the Vietnam War.

Table of Contents

General Introduction xiii
PART I: THE VIETNAMESE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE THROUGH WORLD WAR II
Editors' Introduction
3(1)
Vietnam's Revolutionary Tradition
4(14)
Ngo Vinh Long
First Appeal to the United States (June 18, 1919)
18(2)
Ho Chi Minh
``The Path Which Led Me to Leninism'' (1960)
20(2)
Ho Chi Minh
Founding of the Doc-Lap Dong Minh Hoi (June 1941)
22(2)
Ho Chi Minh
Imperial Abdication (August 1945)
24(2)
Bao Dai
Vietnam Declaration of Independence (September 2, 1945)
26(6)
PART II: THE WAR WITH FRANCE
Editors' Introduction
31(1)
The Franco-Vietnamese War, 1945--1954: Origins of US Involvement
32(9)
Ngo Vinh Long
The French Return: Two State Department Views (April 1945)
41(5)
Vietnam's Second Appeal to the United States: Cable to President Harry S. Truman (October 17, 1945)
46(1)
Ho Chi Minh
Franco-Vietnamese Agreement on the Independence of Vietnam (March 1946)
47(2)
Sponsoring French Colonialism: The State Department Decision (May 1950)
49(1)
Dean Acheson
Taking Up the White Man's Burden: Two American Views (1954)
50(3)
John Foster Dulles
Richard M. Nixon
Vietnamese Victory: Dien Bien Phu, 1954
53(13)
Vo Nguyen Giap
PART III: GENEVA---THE PEACE SUBVERTED
Editors' Introduction
65(1)
The Geneva Cease-Fire (July 20, 1954)
66(8)
Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference (July 21, 1954)
74(2)
Close of the Geneva Conference (July 21, 1954)
76(5)
Cold War Combat: Tactics After Geneva
81(16)
Edward G. Lansdale
Heroin and Politics in Saigon
97(6)
Alfred W. McCoy
Elections and Reunification Denied (1955)
103(2)
``Vietnam's Democratic One-Man Rule''
105(8)
Wesley R. Fishel
A Flawed Commitment: US Endorsement, with Conditions, of Ngo Dinh Diem (1954)
113(2)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Genesis of US Support for the Regime of Ngo Dinh Diem
115(20)
Robert Scheer
PART IV: THE REVOLUTION AGAINST DIEM
Editors' Introduction
133(2)
Behind the Miracle of South Vietnam
135(21)
Robert Scheer
The Legal Underpinnings of Government Terror in South Vietnam: Law 10/59
156(5)
Washington's Man in Saigon: American Commitment to South Vietnam (1961)
161(4)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ngo Dinh Diem
John F. Kennedy
``No Other Road to Take'': Origin of the National Liberation Front in Ben Tre
165(23)
Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh
Founding Program of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
188(5)
``The Political and Military Line of Our Party''
193(8)
Vo Nguyen Giap
US National Security Memorandum: Policy-Planning for Counterinsurgency (1962)
201(4)
McGeorge Bundy
The Rise and Fall of ``Counterinsurgency,'' 1961--1964
205(11)
David G. Marr
The Buddhist Crisis of 1963: The View from Washington from The Pentagon Papers
216(9)
Diem Must Go: The US Embassy in Saigon Orchestrates a Coup d'Etat (1963)
225(16)
PART V: THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE WAR
Editors' Introduction
239(2)
The Blueprint for an Americanized War (1963--1964) from The Pentagon Papers
241(7)
The Gulf of Tonkin ``Incidents'' and Resolution (1964)
248(7)
Rationale for Escalation: The US Government ``White Paper'' of 1965
255(13)
Refutation of the ``White Paper''
268(6)
I. F. Stone
``Defeat American Escalation'': Report to the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1965)
274(2)
Ho Chi Minh
Negotiations? Hanoi's Four Points (April 8, 1965) and Washington's Fourteen Points (January 7, 1966)
276(3)
US Crisis Managers Choose from Among Diminishing Options (1965)
279(22)
William C. Westmoreland
George Ball
William P. Bundy
Robert S. McNamara
PART VI: THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE WAR
Editors' Introduction
295(6)
``We Won't Go'' by the May 2nd Movement
301(1)
``Freedom Draft Card''
302(1)
Two Poems: ``Afterthoughts on a Napalm-Drop on Jungle Villages near Haiphong'' and ``Truth Blazes Even in Little Children's Hearts''
303(2)
Barbara Beidler
Huy Can
``Declaration of Conscience Against the War in Vietnam'' (1965)
305(1)
``We Refuse---October 16'' (1967)
306(2)
``A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority'' (1967)
308(2)
``Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam'' (April 1967)
310(9)
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Deserters' Manifesto'' (1968)
319(2)
``Constraints of the Negro Civil Rights Movement on American Military Effectiveness'' (1970)
321(5)
George L. Jackson
``The Collapse of the Armed Forces'' (1971)
326(16)
Robert D. Heinl, Jr.
PART VII: THE DECISIVE YEAR: 1968
Editors' Introduction
339(3)
``The Year of Decision---1968''
342(17)
William C. Westmoreland
``Remembering the Tet Offensive''
359(19)
David Hunt
The Aftermath of Tet from The Pentagon Papers
378(23)
``Peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia'': Address to the Nation (March 31, 1968)
401(9)
Lyndon Baines Johnson
What Happened at My Lai?
410(20)
Seymour M. Hersh
PART VIII: NIXON'S WAR AND THE AFTERMATH
Editors' Introduction
427(3)
Negotiating Positions of 1969: The NLF's Ten Points (May 8) and Nixon's Eight Points (May 14)
430(4)
``Vietnamization'' (November 3, 1969)
434(11)
Richard M. Nixon
Explaining the ``Secret War'' in Laos (March 6, 1970)
445(6)
Richard M. Nixon
Rationale for the Invasion of Cambodia (April 30, 1970)
451(4)
Richard M. Nixon
Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Testimony to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (April 22, 1971)
455(7)
John Kerry
The Ecological Impact of the Air War
462(9)
Paul Feeny
Jim Allaway
Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam: The Paris Peace Accords (January 27, 1973)
471(16)
US Promise of Postwar Reconstruction: Letter to DRV Prime Minister Pham Van Dong (February 1, 1973)
487(2)
Richard M. Nixon
War Powers Resolution (1973)
489(6)
The ``Great Spring Victory: An Account of the Liberation of South Vietnam'' (1975)
495(5)
Van Tien Dung
`` `The Last Chapter'?''
500(15)
H. Bruce Franklin
Epilogue: ``The Vietnam War in American Memory''
515(30)
Marilyn B. Young
Appendices
A. Chronology
523(10)
B. Glossary
533(6)
C. Select Bibliography
539(6)
Index 545

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