Fire in the Lake The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Name: Fire in the Lake The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780394719276

ISBN-10: 0394719271

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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/12/1973
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Frances FitzGerald lives in New York.



Preface


The Vietnamese


States of Mind


Nations and Empires


The Sovereign of Discord


The National Liberation Front


Introduction


Politics of the Earth


The Origins of the National Liberation Front


A Natural Opposition


The Approach: Children of the People


Rebellion: Self-Control Is the Root of Exploitation


Organization: The Liberated Village, the NLF Command Structure, and the PRP


The Making of a Revolutionary


Marxism-Leninism in the Vietnamese Landscape


The Americans and the Saigon Government


Mise en scene


Politicians and Generals


The United States Enters the War


The Buddhist Crisis


Prospero, Caliban, and Ariel


Bad Puppets


Elections


The Downward Spiral


Prospero


Guerrillas


The Tet Offensive


Conclusion


Nixon's War


Fire in the Lake


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index