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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam - Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia (Paperback, New)
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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam - Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia (Paperback, New)
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind
one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar
era: America's commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam
under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem
experiment is usually ascribed to U.S. anticommunism and an absence
of other candidates for South Vietnam's highest office. Challenging
those explanations, Seth Jacobs utilizes religion and race as
categories of analysis to argue that the alliance with Diem cannot
be understood apart from America's mid-century religious revival
and policymakers' perceptions of Asians. Jacobs contends that
Diem's Catholicism and the extent to which he violated American
notions of "Oriental" passivity and moral laxity made him a more
attractive ally to Washington than many non-Christian South
Vietnamese with greater administrative experience and popular
support. A diplomatic and cultural history, America's Miracle Man
in Vietnam draws on government archives, presidential libraries,
private papers, novels, newspapers, magazines, movies, and
television and radio broadcasts. Jacobs shows in detail how, in the
1950s, U.S. policymakers conceived of Cold War anticommunism as a
crusade in which Americans needed to combine with fellow
Judeo-Christians against an adversary dangerous as much for its
atheism as for its military might. He describes how racist
assumptions that Asians were culturally unready for democratic
self-government predisposed Americans to excuse Diem's dictatorship
as necessary in "the Orient." By focusing attention on the role of
American religious and racial ideologies, Jacobs makes a crucial
contribution to our understanding of the disastrous commitment of
the United States to "sink or swim with Ngo Dinh Diem."
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