Misalliance Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam

Name: Misalliance Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780674072985

ISBN-10: 0674072987

ISBN-13: 9780674072985

Edition: 2013

Authors: Edward Garvey Miller

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"As leader of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963, Ngo Dinh Diem was hailed by some as a "miracle man" who had saved his country from communism. Others denounced him as a U.S. puppet or as a reactionary mandarin. In Misalliance, Edward Miller refutes these simplistic caricatures and presents a new interpretation of Diem and the rise and fall of his alliance with the United States. Drawing on American, French, and Vietnamese archival sources, Miller shows how Diem engineered his own rise to power and outmaneuvered his rivals in Saigon during the mid-1950s. He then embarked on an ambitious program of nation building that was based not on the advice offered by his U.S. advisors, but on his own…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 406
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English