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Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America´s War in Vietnam, 1950–1963
Seth Jacobs
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Paperback. For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the US financed his tyranny. This book traces the tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers in 1963. Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the history of American support for Diem from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers on the outskirts of...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
220
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Vietnam: America in the War Years
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742544482
SKU
V9780742544482
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99-2
About Seth Jacobs
Seth Jacobs is assistant professor in the Department of History at Boston College. He is the author of America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. In 2001, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations honored him with its Stuart Bernath Prize for the best article published in the field of...
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This story is well told and engagingly written. . . . Recommended.
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A well-written, well-researched, and considered discussion of the failures of Diem’s regime. . . . Jacobs’s account is balanced, informative, and convincing. He outlines the negative effects of Diem’s regime without an overly critical view of his motives or capabilities as a public...
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A well-written, well-researched, and considered discussion of the failures of Diem’s regime. . . . Jacobs’s account is balanced, informative, and convincing. He outlines the negative effects of Diem’s regime without an overly critical view of his motives or capabilities as a public...