Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War - Couverture rigide

VanDeMark, Brian

 
9780195065060: Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War

Synopsis

During the 1964 election campaign, Lyndon Johnson pledged to limit US involvement in the Vietnam War, and yet within a year America was fully committed to resisting the Vietcong. In this study of Johnson's volte face, Brian Van de Mark considers the pressures placed on the President to choose between his Great Society social proposals and the alienation of America's right wing, a conflict of interests that was enacted before his eyes during a dramatic weekend at Camp David in July 1965.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Brian VanDeMark traces how and why Johnson escalated American involvement in Vietnam from the election in 1964, in which he pledged to limit involvement, until July 1965, when he committed American forces in a big way.

Revue de presse

A fascinating examination of presidential decision-making at the outset of the Vietnam War....A fine and convincing revisionist analysis. (Kirkus Reviews)

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9780195096507: Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0195096509 ISBN 13 :  9780195096507
Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1991
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