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The End of Ambition - The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (Hardcover)
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The End of Ambition - The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (Hardcover)
Series: America in the World
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A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S.
liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s
At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American
liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the
United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa,
the Middle East, and Latin America. With U.S. power, resources, and
expertise, almost anything seemed possible in the countries of the
Cold War's "Third World"-developing, postcolonial nations unaligned
with the United States or Soviet Union. Yet by the end of the
decade, this vision lay in ruins. What happened? In The End of
Ambition, Mark Atwood Lawrence offers a groundbreaking new history
of America's most consequential decade. He reveals how the Vietnam
War, combined with dizzying social and political changes in the
United States, led to a collapse of American liberal ambition in
the Third World-and how this transformation was connected to
shrinking aspirations back home in America. By the middle and late
1960s, democracy had given way to dictatorship in many Third World
countries, while poverty and inequality remained pervasive. As
America's costly war in Vietnam dragged on and as the Kennedy years
gave way to the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M.
Nixon, America became increasingly risk averse and embraced a new
policy of promoting mere stability in the Third World. Paying
special attention to the U.S. relationships with Brazil, India,
Iran, Indonesia, and southern Africa, The End of Ambition tells the
story of this momentous change and of how international and U.S.
events intertwined. The result is an original new perspective on a
war that continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy today.
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