LEADER 04356nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910822018503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613916631 010 $a1-283-60418-3 010 $a1-4616-3889-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241925 035 $a(EBL)1023684 035 $a(OCoLC)855502333 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000711523 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12330354 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711523 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10693738 035 $a(PQKB)10665332 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1023684 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1023684 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602591 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL391663 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241925 100 $a20130805d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLight at the end of the tunnel $ea Vietnam War anthology /$fedited by Andrew J. Rotter 205 $a3rd ed. 210 $aLanham, Md. $cRowman & Littlefield Publishers$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (517 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7425-6134-8 311 $a0-7425-6133-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: A Chronology of U.S. Intervention; Chapter 1: Getting in, 1945-1952; 1. Ho Chi Minh: The Untried Gamble; 2. The United States, its Allies, and the Bao Dai Experiment; Chapter 2: Fighting Shy, 1953-1961; 3. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Wholehearted Support of Ngo Dinh Diem; 4. Geneva, 1954: The Precarious Peace; 5. The CIA Comes to Vietnam; Chapter 3: Digging in, 1961-1968; 6. No ""Non-Essential Areas"": Kennedy and Vietnam; 7. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution; 8. Lyndon Johnson Chooses War 327 $a9. The Tet Offensive, 196810. A Dissenter in the Administration; Chapter 4: Getting Out, 1968-1975; 11. Nixon, Kissinger, and a Pax Americana; 12. Bombing Hanoi, Mining Haiphong, and the Moscow Summit; 13. Stabbed in the Back; Part II: In Country; Chapter 5: Allies and Enemies; 14. Ngo Dinh Diem, the Impossible Ally; 15. Ngo Dinh Diem, Modernizer; 16. The Foreign Policy of North Vietnam; 17. The National Liberation Front and the Land; Chapter 6: The Battlefield; 18. Getting Hit; 19. Feeling Cold; 20. Nursing and Disillusionment; 21. ""They Did Not Know Good from Evil"" 327 $a22. My Lai: The Killing Begins Part III: Controversies and Consequences of American Involvement; Chapter 7: International Dimensions of the War; 23. The Soviet Union and American Escalation; 24. China and the American Escalation; 25. The Vietnamese and Global Revolutions; Chapter 8: Laos and Cambodia; 26. The War in Laos; 27. Bombing Cambodia: A Critique; 28. Bombing Cambodia: A Defense; Chapter 9: Interpreting the War; 29. A Clash of Cultures; 30. An Opportunity for Power; 31. A Defense of Freedom; 32. An Act of Imperialism; 33. An Assertion of Manhood; Chapter 10: The War in America 327 $a34. Working-Class War 35. Seeds of a Movement; 36. Women at the Barricades, Then and Now; Chapter 11: The Legacy of War; 37. Saigon: The End and the Beginning; 38. Homecoming USA; 39. Amerasians: A People in Between; Chapter 12: Afterword; 40. Letting Go; Notes; Sources 330 $aOf all of the wars in which the U.S. has been engaged, none has been as divisive as the conflict in Vietnam. The repercussions of this unsettling episode in American history still resonate in our society. Although it ended more than 30 years ago, the Vietnam War continues to fascinate and trouble Americans. The third edition of Light at the End of the Tunnel gives a full overview of the conflict. Starting with Ho Chi Minh's revolt against the French, editor Andrew J. Rotter takes the reader through the succeeding years as scholars, government officials, journalists, and others recount the 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$zUnited States 607 $aVietnam$xPolitics and government$y1945-1975 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975 676 $a959.704/3373 701 $aRotter$b Andrew Jon$01714544 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822018503321 996 $aLight at the end of the tunnel$94122169 997 $aUNINA