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Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963
Contributor(s): Jacobs, Seth (Author)

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 ISBN: 0742544486     ISBN-13: 9780742544482
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
OUR PRICE: $49.35  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2006
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Annotation: 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 tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment 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.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - Southeast Asia
- History | United States - 20th Century
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2006003240
Series: Vietnam, America in the War Years
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.08" W x 9.06" L (0.76 lbs) 220 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 57
 
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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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