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Cold War Mandarin - Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 (Hardcover)
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Cold War Mandarin - Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 (Hardcover)
Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years
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For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South
Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his
tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the history of
American support for Diem from his first appearance in Washington
as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese
soldiers on the outskirts of Saigon in 1963. Drawing on recent
scholarship and newly available primary sources, Cold War Mandarin
explores how Diem became America's bastion against a communist
South Vietnam, and why the Kennedy and Eisenhower administrations
kept his regime afloat. Finally, Jacobs examines the brilliantly
organized public-relations campaign by Saigon's Buddhists that
persuaded Washington to collude in the overthrow-and
assassination-of its longtime ally. In this clear and succinct
analysis, Jacobs details the "Diem experiment," and makes it clear
how America's policy of "sink or swim with Ngo Dinh Diem"
ultimately drew the country into the longest war in its history.
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