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Diem's final failure : prelude to America's War in Vietnam

Author:Philip E. Catton

Summary:"Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's study provides a much more complex portrait of Diem as both a devout patriot and a failed architect of modernization. In doing so, it sheds new light on a controversial regime."

Print Book, English, 2002

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Publisher: University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 2002

Series:

Modern war studies

Physical Description:x, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9780700612208, 0700612203

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:49894924

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Diem's final failure.

Catton, Philip E.

Contents:

A shotgun wedding

The Ngos, nationalism, and nation building

Land reform, land development, and agrovilles

Origins of the strategic hamlet program

Photo gallery

Theory and practice

Competitive cooperation

Binh Duong Province : case study of a program in trouble

The reckoning