Light at the End of the Tunnel

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ISBN: 9780842027120 | 0842027122
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/1/1999

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Of all of the wars in which the U.S. has been engaged, none has touched a chord as deeply as the conflict in Vietnam. The repercussions of this unsettling episode in American history still resonate in our society. Although it ended more than 20 years ago,

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Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
A Chronology of U.S. Intervention
Getting In, 1945-1952	p. 3
Ho Chi Minh: The Untried Gamble	p. 5
The United States, France, and the First Indochina War	p. 19
Fighting Shy, 1953-1961	p. 31
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Wholehearted Support of Ngo Dinh Diem	p. 33
Geneva, 1954: The Precarious Peace	p. 47
The CIA Comes to Vietnam	p. 57
Digging In, 1961-1968	p. 65
No "Non-Essential Areas": Kennedy and Vietnam	p. 66
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution	p. 76
Groping toward Escalation	p. 86
The Tet Offensive	p. 105
A Dissenter in the Government	p. 115
Getting Out, 1968-1975	p. 125
Bombing Hanoi, Mining Haiphong, and the Moscow Summit	p. 126
The Failure of Force	p. 138
Stabbed in the Back	p. 150
In Country
The American Enemy	p. 163
The Birth of the National Liberation Front	p. 164
The People and the Americans	p. 173
Why the Communists Won	p. 180
The National Liberation Front and the Land	p. 190
The Battlefield	p. 195
Getting Hit	p. 197
Feeling Cold	p. 202
Nursing and Disillusionment	p. 207
"They Did Not Know Good from Evil"	p. 215
The Military	p. 223
Assessing the Military's Performance	p. 224
Military Mismanagement	p. 236
My Lai: The Killing Begins	p. 249
Controversies and Consequences of American Involvement
Laos and Cambodia	p. 265
The War in Laos	p. 266
Bombing Cambodia: A Critique	p. 273
Bombing Cambodia: A Defense	p. 284
Interpreting the War	p. 295
A Clash of Cultures	p. 297
A Bureaucratic Tangle	p. 314
An Act of Imperialism	p. 323
A Defense of Freedom	p. 343
A Perfect Technowar	p. 353
The War at Home	p. 365
Working-Class War	p. 367
Seeds of a Movement	p. 379
Women at the Barricades, Then and Now	p. 392
The Legacy of the War	p. 401
Returning to South Vietnam	p. 403
A Deserter and His Family	p. 412
Agent Orange and the Wall at Home	p. 417
Afterword	p. 425
Letting Go	p. 427
List of Sources	p. 437
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