252pp/illus. "provides a new perspective on a critical and often misunderstood period of America's involvement in Vietnam. With its exhaustively researched and newly disclosed material, it clearly establishes the extent to which Kennedy's policies protracted our involvement, and to what extent his sucessors must be held accountable.". Clean.

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Title

Kennedy in Vietnam

Publisher

Scribners, New York

Publication Date

1985

Language

English

ISBN 10

0684183706

ISBN 13

9780684183701

Binding

Cloth

Edition

1st Printing

Condition

Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good+

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Vietnam/Vietnam War

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"Rust's Book, Kennedy in Vietnam, based on thousands of hours of interviews he and his colleagues at the magazine U.S. News and World Report conducted with former officials who had served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, provided the first sustained analysis of Kennedy's policies and the fullest portrayal yet of JFK as a conflicted warrior. Kennedy in Vietnam also offered a fuller account of what many saw as Kennedy's most fateful policy: to support the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in the fall of 1963."

A Companion to John F. Kennedy, Marc J. Selverstone, 2014

Review

"This is an important and readable contribution to the history of American involvement in Vietnam."--Yale historian Gaddis Smith, in Foreign Affairs, Winter 1985/86

"Deserves the attention of all serious students of American foreign policy."--Diplomat Richard Holbrooke, in The New Republic, February 1, 1988

"Careful, compact, and fair minded...as sound and reliable account as we are likely to have of U.S. deliberations and action regarding Vietnam during the Kennedy years."--Arnold R. Isaacs, author of Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia, in Washington Post Book World, August 4, 1985

"A carefully researched, well-written account of America's initial immersion in Vietnam...This book will be the definitive work for some time, and clearly surpasses anything else in the field."--Col. Rod Paschall, director, U.S. Army Military History Institute, in Parameters, 1986, The Journal of the U.S. Army War College

"I have seen no better, and certainly no more detailed, popular account of the years during which the Kennedy administration was groping, in varying states of hubris and uncertainty, for a policy in Southeast Asia."--Journalist Henry L. Trewhitt, in The Baltimore Sun, August 25, 1985

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