Cold War Mandarin Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963

Name: Cold War Mandarin Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963
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ISBN: 9780742544475

ISBN-10: 0742544478

ISBN-13: 9780742544475

Edition: 2006

Authors: Seth Jacobs

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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 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 on the outskirts of Saigon in 1963.

Book details

List price: $129.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/24/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.39" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.990

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 .



Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



"The Kind of Asian We Can Live With": Diem Wins American Support



"Let Our People Go!": The Geneva Accords and Passage to Freedom



"This Fellow Is Impossible": The Collins Mission



"Miracle Man": Diem's Regime in Myth and Reality



"Truth Shall Burst Forth in Irresistible Waves of Hatred": Cracks in the Facade



"A Scenario of Torture, Persecution, and Worse": The Diem Experiment in Decline



"No Respectable Turning Back": Collapse of the Diem Experiment



Conclusion


Bibliographic Essay


Index


About the Author