03185nam 2200733Ia 450 991097055730332120251116150652.00-19-988004-20-19-802298-01-280-45120-31-4237-4057-20-19-535719-11-60256-041-2(CKB)1000000000028769(EBL)729016(OCoLC)793510790(SSID)ssj0000182204(PQKBManifestationID)11156481(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182204(PQKBWorkID)10171430(PQKB)10330466(SSID)ssj0000361796(PQKBManifestationID)12108805(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000361796(PQKBWorkID)10362849(PQKB)11485630(MiAaPQ)EBC729016(Au-PeEL)EBL729016(CaPaEBR)ebr10086910(CaONFJC)MIL45120(MiAaPQ)EBC241305(Au-PeEL)EBL241305(OCoLC)475956071(OCoLC)154296629(FINmELB)ELB166560(EXLCZ)99100000000002876919951016d1995 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInto the quagmire Lyndon Johnson and the escalation of the Vietnam War /Brian VanDeMarkNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Press19951 online resource (285 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-506506-9 0-19-509650-9 Includes bibliography: p. 223-238 and index.CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. To the Crossroads in Vietnam; 2. ""The Day of Reckoning Is Coming,""; 3. ""Stable Government or No Stable Government,""; 4. ""A Bear by the Tail,""; 5. ""Where Are We Going?,""; 6. ""If I Were Ho Chi Minh, I Would Never Negotiate,""; 7. ""What in the World Is Happening?,""; 8. ""Can You Stop It?,""; 9. ""Better'n Owl,""; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; NOTES; INDEX;In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the government of South Vietnam lay in a shambles. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor described it as a country beset by ""chronic factionalism, civilian-military suspicion and distrust, absence of national spirit and motivation, lack of cohesion in the social structure, lack of experience in the conduct of government."" Virtually no one in the Johnson Administration believed that Saigon could defeat the communist insurgency--and yet by July of 1965, a mere nine months later, they would lock the United StatesVietnam War, 1961-1975United StatesVietnam War, 1961-1975CausesVietnam War, 1961-1975Vietnam War, 1961-1975Causes.959.704/3373VanDeMark Brian1960-1859436MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970557303321Into the quagmire4463219UNINA