LEADER 03131nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910452470203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07535-8 010 $a0-674-07532-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674075320 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039421 035 $a(EBL)3301272 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860508 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11464845 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860508 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10895528 035 $a(PQKB)10263545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301272 035 $a(DE-B1597)209808 035 $a(OCoLC)836864101 035 $a(OCoLC)956975906 035 $a(OCoLC)979588813 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674075320 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301272 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678703 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039421 100 $a20120829d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMisalliance$b[electronic resource] $eNgo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the fate of South Vietnam /$fEdward Miller 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-07298-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMan of faith -- New beginnings -- The making of an alliance -- Revolutions and republics -- Settlers and engineers -- Countering insurgents -- Limited partners -- Mixed signals -- The unmaking of an alliance. 330 $a"As leader of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963, Ngo Dinh Diem was hailed by some as a "miracle man" who had saved his country from communism. Others denounced him as a U.S. puppet or as a reactionary mandarin. In Misalliance, Edward Miller refutes these simplistic caricatures and presents a new interpretation of Diem and the rise and fall of his alliance with the United States. Drawing on American, French, and Vietnamese archival sources, Miller shows how Diem engineered his own rise to power and outmaneuvered his rivals in Saigon during the mid-1950s. He then embarked on an ambitious program of nation building that was based not on the advice offered by his U.S. advisors, but on his own vision of Vietnam's modernization. Overturning the conventional wisdom about Diem, Miller shows that he was a man with a plan--a plan that turned out to be deeply flawed, with disastrous consequences for both Vietnam and the United States"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia$2bisacsh 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zVietnam (Republic) 607 $aVietnam (Republic)$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aVietnam (Republic)$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia. 676 $a327.730597/7 700 $aMiller$b Edward Garvey$01054426 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452470203321 996 $aMisalliance$92486994 997 $aUNINA