America's Miracle Man in Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U. S. Intervention in Southeast Asia

Name: America's Miracle Man in Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U. S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 9780822334408

ISBN-10: 0822334402

ISBN-13: 9780822334408

Edition: 2004

Authors: Seth Jacobs, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg

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As a crucial prerequisite to the incremental steps that led to the devastation and defeat of the Vietnam War, America's support for Ngo Dinh Diem as the head of South Vietnam from the mid-1950s into the early 1960s proved to be catastrophic. Exploring the rationale for this extraordinarily consequential Cold War policy, Seth Jacobs adds a new layer of complexity to histories attributing the commitment to Diem to anticommunism and a lack of other viable candidates. Jacobs argues that senior U.S. policymakers' support for Diem grew out of the unprecedented religious revival of the 1950s and the almost complete lack of detailed knowledge about the Far East. He contends that only by taking…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.86" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Seth Jacobs is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of Cold War Mandarin and America's Miracle Man in Vietnam .



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"Colonialism, Communism, or Catholicism?": Mr. Diem Goes to Washington



"Our System Demands the Supreme Being": America's Third Great Awakening



"These People Aren't Complicated": America's "Asia" at Midcentury



"Christ Crucified in Indo-China": Tom Dooley and the North Vietnamese Refugees



"The Sects and the Gangs Mean to Get Rid of the Saint": "Lightning Joe" Collins and the Battle for Saigon



"This God-Fearing Anti-Communist": The Vietnam Lobby and the Selling of Ngo Dinh Diem


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index