When the United States government engineered the overthrow of the
troublesome South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963,
it set in motion a tumultuous course of events deepening the
Vietnam War. The Year of the Hare asks why President John E Kennedy
decided to depose his ally of nine years, despite almost daily
warnings from some cabinet officials that the most likely
consequence of a coup would be chaos.
Why did Kennedy and his colleagues choose this perilous course
in the midst of an uncertain civil war? To answer this question,
The Year of the Hare takes us inside the Kennedy administration,
where the State Department largely supported the coup while the
Pentagon and the CIA consistently resisted it. Francis X. Winters's
research is based on in-depth interviews with high-ranking members
of the Kennedy administration, including Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy,
and George Ball, along with the newly issued multivolume
compilation Foreign Relations and the United States, 1961-1964,
Vietnam and the recently opened General Records of the U.S. State
Department for 1963.
The reasons for American support of the coup in Vietnam, Winters
asserts, lie both in the ethos of the era, with its dynamic
confidence in the superiority of American ideals, and in Kennedy's
political aspirations. The Year of the Hare explores the synergy
between the idealism and personal ambition that were at the root of
our troubled memories of the war that haunts us still.
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