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Cold war mandarin : Ngo Dinh Diem and the origins of America's war in Vietnam, 1950-1963
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- Creator
- Seth Jacobs
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780742544475, 0742544478, 9780742544482, 0742544486
- OCLC
- ocm63297750
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index.
- "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