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Product Details
Free Press, July 2002
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0684870274
ISBN-13: 9780684870274
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Table of Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
The Indochina Theater
The Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1946-89
Chapter 2 Why Indochina Mattered
American Credibility and the Cold War
Chapter 3 Inflexible Response
The U.S. Military and the Vietnam War
Chapter 4 The Fall of Washington
The Domestic Politics of the Vietnam War
Chapter 5 Disinformation
Vietnam and the Folklore of the Antiwar Movement
Chapter 6 Credibility Gap
The Myth of the Presidential War
Chapter 7 Was the Vietnam War Unjust?
Chapter 8 The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War
Notes
Index
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