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Gardner concentrates on high-level discussions between U.S., French and British leaders over "the Indo-china problem," an issue that concerned President Franklin Roosevelt even before Pearl Harbor. Quoting liberally from bilateral and trilateral conferences and government memoranda, the study traces the gradual shift from FDR's righteous anticolonial intentions with regard to French hegemony in Southeast Asia to the self-righteous "nation-building" policy of the Eisenhower-Dulles erathe latter based on a conviction that "the American Revolution could be exported, materially and spiritually, to benefit the world." The study is best described in the author's own words: it is "about the way American policymakers perceived Vietnam within the outlines of a global vision." The Final Declarations of the 1954 Geneva Conference, plus the official U.S. response, are reprinted in the appendix. Gardner is the author of Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution.
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On May 8th 1954 the French stronghold of Dienbienphu, in Vietnam, fell to the forces of Ho Chi Minh, ending 80 years of French rule. Dienbienphu is generally viewed as the beginning of the escalating involvement that led America into its longest war. In fact, Dienbienphu was merely the middle of a protracted struggle for Vietnam, a diplomatic struggle that had begun in 1941, as World War II raged. In this book, the author draws on documents never before analyzed, painting a complex picture of diplomatic manoeuvre and colonial ambition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Gardner concentrates on high-level discussions between U.S., French and British leaders over "the Indo-china problem," an issue that concerned President Franklin Roosevelt even before Pearl Harbor. Quoting liberally from bilateral and trilateral conferences and government memoranda, the study traces the gradual shift from FDR's righteous anticolonial intentions with regard to French hegemony in Southeast Asia to the self-righteous "nation-building" policy of the Eisenhower-Dulles erathe latter based on a conviction that "the American Revolution could be exported, materially and spiritually, to benefit the world." The study is best described in the author's own words: it is "about the way American policymakers perceived Vietnam within the outlines of a global vision." The Final Declarations of the 1954 Geneva Conference, plus the official U.S. response, are reprinted in the appendix. Gardner is the author of Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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On May 8th 1954 the French stronghold of Dienbienphu, in Vietnam, fell to the forces of Ho Chi Minh, ending 80 years of French rule. Dienbienphu is generally viewed as the beginning of the escalating involvement that led America into its longest war. In fact, Dienbienphu was merely the middle of a protracted struggle for Vietnam, a diplomatic struggle that had begun in 1941, as World War II raged. In this book, the author draws on documents never before analyzed, painting a complex picture of diplomatic manoeuvre and colonial ambition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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- The Vietnam Lobby: The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975 by Joseph G. Morgan on 4 pages
- Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 1945-1975 by David L. Anderson on page 39, page 60, and Back Matter
- Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War: The State, Military Power and Social Revolution (Cass Series--Cold War History, 2) by Richard Saull on page 205, page 206, and Back Matter
- Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective) by Mark Atwood Lawrence in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam (Modern War Studies) by Philip E. Catton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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