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Diem's Final Failure : Prelude to America's War in Vietnam /

"Neither an American puppet, as communist propaganda claimed, nor a backward-looking mandarin, according to Western accounts, Catton's Diem is a tragic figure who finally ran out of time, just a few weeks before JFK's assassination and at a moment when it still seemed possible for Ame...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catton, Philip E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A shotgun wedding
  • The Ngos, nationalism, and nation building
  • Land reform, land development, and agrovilles
  • Origins of the strategic hamlet program
  • Photo gallery
  • Theory and practice
  • Competitive cooperation
  • Binh Duong Province : case study of a program in trouble
  • The reckoning.