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A Time for War - The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (Paperback, Revised)
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A Time for War - The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (Paperback, Revised)
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A sober, objective, detailed recounting and analysis of the
American war in Vietnam, told almost exclusively from the American
perspective. Schulzinger (History/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
offers no new theory on why the US fought in Vietnam nor why this
country came out on the losing end. But he has a different
objective: offering a "compendium of the current state of
scholarship on the Vietnam War." Leaning heavily on State
Department cables, White House memoranda, and other primary
sources, Schulzinger offers a strongly researched, cleanly written,
chronological look at Vietnam and an analysis of why the war effort
failed. In the main, he agrees with the assessment of former
secretary of state Dean Rusk, who believed that the Vietnamese
communists prevailed because American policymakers underestimated
the will of the North Vietnamese and overestimated the patience of
the American people. Schulzinger also believes that, given the
tenacity of the enemy and the severe political and military
shortcomings of our South Vietnamese ally, the war was unwinnable
for America. Schulzinger asks rhetorically what the US could have
done to win, given the realities of the time. The answer:
"Nothing." Among the book's many strong points is Schulzinger's
dispassionate analysis of the antiwar movement, in which he
addresses the still hotly debated question of whether the protests
helped end the war or prolonged it by comforting the enemy. The
antiwar movement "did not end the war in Vietnam, but it did alter,
almost irrevocably, the perceptions of ordinary citizens of their
society and their government; it also altered the perceptions of
leaders toward the public." The first of a projected two-volume
set; volume II will cover the Vietnam War's political, economic,
social, and cultural legacies. (Kirkus Reviews)
The first full-length history of the Vietnam War based on primary sources.
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