The Palace File - Softcover

Hung, Nguyen Tien; Schecter, Jerrold L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060915722 ISBN 13: 9780060915728

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1989

Synopsis

1989 jumbo trade paperback, Lien Nguyen (Wild Mustard: New Voices from Vietnam), Jerrold L. Schecter (The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War). This book offers a fresh perspective on the Vietnam War and strikingly new documentation, both of which derive from co-author Hung's unique vantage point. A U.S.-trained economist, Hung served as special assistant to South Vietnamese President Thieu. In that capacity he gained access to a file of 31 letters from Presidents Nixon and Ford to the Vietnamese leader.- Amazon

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From Library Journal:

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Vietnam War and strikingly new documentation, both of which derive from co-author Hung's unique vantage point. A U.S.-trained economist, Hung served as special assistant to South Vietnamese President Thieu. In that capacity he gained access to a file of 31 letters from Presidents Nixon and Ford to the Vietnamese leader. Schecter, a Time editor, has assisted Hung in using this "palace file" of previously unpublished documents as the basis of a powerful critique of U.S. policy, especially the failure of the United States to live up to commitments to sustain South Vietnam after the Paris Peace Accords. Absorbing reading for a scholarly audience and informed laypersons; this will become a standard, if controversial, source. John H. Boyle, History Dept., California State Univ., Chico
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060915722
• ISBN 13: 9780060915728
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 542