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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 that war, as documented in essays by leading experts and in original source material. It presents generous selections from the documentary record, dispels distortions, and illuminates in depth both sides of the history of America's encounter with Vietnam.

This complete history of the Vietnam War, as documented in essays by leading experts and in original source material, presents selections from the documented record, dispels distortions, and illuminates in depth both sides of the history ...

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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 that war, as documented in essays by leading experts and in original source material. It presents generous selections from the documentary record, dispels distortions, and illuminates in depth both sides of the history of America's encounter with Vietnam.

This complete history of the Vietnam War, as documented in essays by leading experts and in original source material, presents selections from the documented record, dispels distortions, and illuminates in depth both sides of the history of America's encounter with Vietnam.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Fearful that an ``America ignorant and innocent of Vietnam can again freely move against the self-determination of other nations,'' the editors have compiled here a history of United States involvement in Vietnam that draws equally on original material and surveys. Included are Vietnam's 1945 Declaration of Independencepart of which paraphrases our ownthe highlights of other key statements, speeches and treaties of the past 40 years, as well as such widely varied selections as Robert Scheer on the ``Vietnam lobby'' of the '50s, Seymour Hersh's account of the My Lai massacre, General Giap's recollection of the fall of Dien Bien Phu, and several excerpts from the Pentagon Papers. Although the publication of this material in one volume is immensely useful, the editors' notes are sometimes overbearing, as if the reader isn't trusted to come independently to their conclusionthat U.S. policy in Vietnam should be condemned. November
Library Journal
The editors of this important anthology participated in the ``teach-in'' movement of 1965, which mobilized the academic community against U.S. policy in Vietnam. Patterned after Gettleman's bestselling sourcebook of the period, Vietnam: history, documents, and opinions (1956), this work is chiefly designed to let the facts speak for themselves. Essential documents are reprinted, including the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the 1954 Geneva Conference Declaration, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, together with well-researched notes, introductions, and an abstract preceding each piece. Controversial issues are explored (a whole chapter is devoted to the antiwar movement), but the selections are balanced fairly. Official statements by top political and military leaders on both sides are included. This convenient one-volume compilation of a wide range of largely primary source material is highly recommended for most libraries. Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780802130976
  • Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 10/15/1990
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 448

Table of Contents

General Introduction
1 Vietnam's Revolutionary Tradition 4
2 First Appeal to the United States (June 18, 1919) 18
3 "The Path Which Led Me to Leninism" (1960) 20
4 Founding of the Doc-Lap Dong Minh Hoi (June 1941) 22
5 Imperial Abdication (August 1945) 24
6 Vietnam Declaration of Independence (September 2, 1945) 26
7 The Franco-Vietnamese War, 1945-1954: Origins of US Involvement 32
8 The French Return: Two State Department Views (April 1945) 41
9 Vietnam's Second Appeal to the United States: Cable to President Harry S. Truman (October 17, 1945) 46
10 Franco-Vietnamese Agreement on the Independence of Vietnam (March 1946) 47
11 Sponsoring French Colonialism: The State Department Decision (May 1950) 49
12 Taking Up the White Man's Burden: Two American Views (1954) 50
13 Vietnamese Victory: Dien Bien Phu, 1954 53
14 The Geneva Cease-Fire (July 20, 1954) 66
15 Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference (July 21, 1954) 74
16 Close of the Geneva Conference (July 21, 1954) 76
17 Cold War Combat: Tactics After Geneva 81
18 Heroin and Politics in Saigon 97
19 Elections and Reunification Denied (1955) 103
20 "Vietnam's Democratic One-Man Rule" 105
21 A Flawed Commitment: US Endorsement, with Conditions, of Ngo Dinh Diem (1954) 113
22 Genesis of US Support for the Regime of Ngo Dinh Diem 115
23 Behind the Miracle of South Vietnam 135
24 The Legal Underpinnings of Government Terror in South Vietnam: Law 10/59 156
25 Washington's Man in Saigon: American Commitment to South Vietnam (1961) 161
26 "No Other Road to Take": Origin of the National Liberation Front in Ben Tre 165
27 Founding Program of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam 188
28 "The Political and Military Line of Our Party" 193
29 US National Security Memorandum: Policy-Planning for Counterinsurgency (1962) 201
30 The Rise and Fall of "Counterinsurgency," 1961-1964 205
31 The Buddhist Crisis of 1963: The View from Washington from The Pentagon Papers 216
32 Diem Must Go: The US Embassy in Saigon Orchestrates a Coup d'Etat (1963) 225
33 The Blueprint for an Americanized War (1963-1964) from The Pentagon Papers 241
34 The Gulf of Tonkin "Incidents" and Resolution (1964) 248
35 Rationale for Escalation: The US Government "White Paper" of 1965 255
36 Refutation of the "White Paper" 268
37 "Defeat American Escalation": Report to the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1965) 274
38 Negotiations? Hanoi's Four Points (April 8, 1965) and Washington's Fourteen Points (January 7, 1966) 276
39 US Crisis Managers Choose from Among Diminishing Options (1965) 279
40 "We Won't Go" 301
41 "Freedom Draft Card" 302
42 Two Poems: "Afterthoughts on a Napalm-Drop on Jungle Villages near Haiphong" and "Truth Blazes Even in Little Children's Hearts" 303
43 "Declaration of Conscience Against the War in Vietnam" (1965) 305
44 "We Refuse - October 16" (1967) 306
45 "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority" (1967) 308
46 "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam" (April 1967) 310
47 "Deserters' Manifesto" (1968) 319
48 "Constraints of the Negro Civil Rights Movement on American Military Effectiveness" (1970) 321
49 "The Collapse of the Armed Forces" (1971) 326
50 "The Year of Decision - 1968" 342
51 "Remembering the Tet Offensive" 359
52 The Aftermath of Tet 378
53 "Peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia": Address to the Nation (March 31, 1968) 401
54 What Happened at My Lai? 410
55 Negotiating Positions of 1969: The NLF's Ten Points (May 8) and Nixon's Eight Points (May 14) 430
56 "Vietnamization" (November 3, 1969) 434
57 Explaining the "Secret War" in Laos (March 6, 1970) 445
58 Rationale for the Invasion of Cambodia (April 30, 1970) 451
59 Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Testimony to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (April 22, 1971) 455
60 The Ecological Impact of the Air War 462
61 Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam: The Paris Peace Accords (January 27, 1973) 471
62 US Promise of Postwar Reconstruction: Letter to DRV Prime Minister Pham Van Dong (February 1, 1973) 487
63 War Powers Resolution (1973) 489
64 The "Great Spring Victory: An Account of the Liberation of South Vietnam" (1975) 495
65 " 'The Last Chapter'?" 500
Epilogue: "The Vietnam War in American Memory" 515
App. A. Chronology 523
App. B. Glossary 533
App. C. Select Bibliography 539
Index 545

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