The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified
entity throughout the two decades (1955-75) during which the United
States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that
time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos
to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The
stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both
academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a
caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was
achieved during the last eight years. The essays in Voices from the
Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967-1975) come from those who
strove to build a constitutional structure of representative
government during a war for survival with a totalitarian state.
Those committed to realizing a noncommunist Vietnamese future
placed their hopes in the Second Republic, fought for it, and
worked for its success. This book is a step in making their stories
known.
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