Front cover image for Cold war mandarin Ngo Dinh Diem and the origins of America's war in Vietnam, 1950-1963

Cold war mandarin Ngo Dinh Diem and the origins of America's war in Vietnam, 1950-1963

Seth Jacobs (Author)
"The kind of Asian we can live with" : Diem wins American support -- "Let our people go!" : the Geneva accords and passage to freedom -- "This fellow is impossible" : the Collins mission -- "Miracle man" : Diem's regime in myth and reality -- "Truth shall burst forth in irresistible waves of hatred" : cracks in the façade -- "A scenario of torture, persecution, and worse" : the Diem experiment in decline -- "No respectable turning back" : collapse of the Diem experiment

Print Book, English, 2006
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md. [u.a.], 2006