Michael Lind

Vietnam (eBook, ePUB)

The Necessary War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestseller.

In this groundgreaking reinterpretation of America's most disatrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes enduring myths and put the Vietnam War in its proper contextas part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lind reveals the deep cultural divisions within the United States that made the Cold War consensus so fragile and explains how and why American public support for the war in Indochina declined. Even more stunning is his provacative argument that the United States failed in Vietnam because the military establishment did not adapt to the demands of what before 1968 had been largely a guerrilla war.

In an era when the United States so often finds itself embroiled in prolonged and difficult conflicts, Lind offers a sobering cautionary tale to Ameicans of all political viewpoints.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439135266
• Artikelnr.: 39168156

Autorenporträt

Michael Lind is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine. He is also the author of five previous books, including The Next American Nation and Up from Conservatism. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and other publications. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Texas. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
The Indochina Theater
The Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1946-89
Chapter 2
Why Indochina Mattered
American Credibility and the Cold War
Chapter 3
Inflexible Response
The U.S. Military and the Vietnam War
Chapter 4
The Fall of Washington
The Domestic Politics of the Vietnam War
Chapter 5
Disinformation
Vietnam and the Folklore of the Antiwar Movement
Chapter 6
Credibility Gap
The Myth of the Presidential War
Chapter 7
Was the Vietnam War Unjust?
Chapter 8
The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War
Notes
Index