Gives an accurate and objective analysis of the hostilities at home and abroad. This edition provides fuller discussions of domestic opposition to the war and the relationship between the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong. It also includes information from the Johnson Library and other released archives.
This study of American involvement in Vietnam analyzes the ultimate failure of the war and examines its impact on US foreign policy. It seeks to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective and to offer answers to several important questions.
The author portrays American participation in the Vietnam War as the logical culmination of the containment policy that began under Harry Truman in the late 1940's. Also his portrayal of the complex challenge that Vietnam posed for the United States and the varied responses it evoked from American people & leaders