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050	0	0	_aDS558 _b.H85 1996
100	1		_aHunt, Michael H. _915014
245	1	0	_aLyndon Johnson's war : _bAmerica's cold war crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 / _cMichael H. Hunt.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bHill and Wang, _c1996.
300			_aix, 146 p. : _bmap ; _c22 cm.
490	1		_aA critical issue
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [133]-139) and index.
505	0		_aThe Cold War world of The Ugly American -- Ho Chi Minh's brocade bags -- Learned academics on the Potomac -- "That bitch of a war" -- How heavy the reckoning?
520			_aThe Vietnam War, perhaps the mast controversial war Americans have ever fought, remains a source of pain and perplexity. Why did Lyndon Johnson commit the United States to fight? Why did he fail to act more decisively once he resolved on war? And why didn't he take the American public into his confidence? These questions have troubled historians since the end of the war, but the answers have been buried in inaccessible documents. Now Michael H. Hunt uses newly available sources from both American and Vietnamese archives to reevaluate how and why the war started and then escalated. He examines the ideological, strategic, political, and institutional pressures that in the 1950s propelled the Truman and Eisenhower administrations toward intervention in Indochina; the reasons why Kennedy's and Johnson's policymakers believed that a limited war could be fought there; Johnson's early position on Vietnam and his decision to intensify U.S. involvement in the war; and, finally, the tragic consequences of the Vietnam War both at home and abroad. Throughout, he discusses the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention, thus rendering more comprehensible - if no less troubling - the tangled origins of the Vietnam War.
600	1	0	_aJohnson, Lyndon B. _q(Lyndon Baines), _d1908-1973. _915015
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _zUnited States. _915003
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _zVietnam. _915016
651		0	_aVietnam _xForeign relations _zUnited States. _915017
651		0	_aVietnam _xHistory _y1945-1975. _915018
830		0	_aCritical issue. _915019
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