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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- America's Miracle Man in Vietnam : Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U. S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
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- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
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- Military / Vietnam War, International Relations / General, Presidents & Heads of State
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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America's commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S. anticommunism and an absence of other candidates for South Vietnam's highest office. Challenging those explanations, Seth Jacobs utilizes religion and race as categories of analysis to argue that the alliance with Diem cannot be understood apart from America's mid-century religious revival and policymakers' perceptions of Asians. Jacobs contends that Diem's Catholicism and the extent to which he violated American notions of "Oriental" passivity and moral laxity made him a more attractive ally to Washington than many non-Christian South Vietnamese with greater administrative experience and popular support. A diplomatic and cultural history, America's Miracle Man in Vietnam draws on government archives, presidential libraries, private papers, novels, newspapers, magazines, movies, and television and radio broadcasts. Jacobs shows in detail how, in the 1950s, U.S. policymakers conceived of Cold War anticommunism as a crusade in which Americans needed to combine with fellow Judeo-Christians against an adversary dangerous as much for its atheism as for its military might. He describes how racist assumptions that Asians were culturally unready for democratic self-government predisposed Americans to excuse Diem's dictatorship as necessary in "the Orient." By focusing attention on the role of American religious and racial ideologies, Jacobs makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the disastrous commitment of the United States to "sink or swim with Ngo Dinh Diem."
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Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822334402
ISBN-13
9780822334408
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Product Key Features
Book Title
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam : Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U. S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / Vietnam War, International Relations / General, Presidents & Heads of State
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
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E183.8.V5j33 2004
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"In combining a history of American cultural politics of the 1950s with a careful examination of American diplomacy toward Diem, Seth Jacobs creates a rich and engaging narrative, one that advances our understanding of VietnameseAmerican relations in innovative, original, and important ways. Jacobs fundamentally recasts how we view this critical period in the history of Vietnam and the Cold War." Mark Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 "Seth Jacobs makes a seminal contribution to the study of the origins of American involvement in Vietnam. Combining prodigious research in a rich variety of primary sources, a sophisticated conceptual framework that illuminates the intersection of high politics and popular culture, and an especially engaging writing style, Jacobs fundamentally recasts how we view this critical period in the history of the Vietnam wars and the Cold War."--Mark Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 19191950"Seth Jacobs's interesting and provocative argument adds a new interpretation to the massive literature on the United States and the path toward full deployment in Vietnam. Jacobs writes with a lively, punchy style that makes his work both entertaining and instructive."--Michael Latham, author of Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and 'Nation Building' in the Kennedy Era, "Seth Jacobs's interesting and provocative argument adds a new interpretation to the massive literature on the United States and the path toward full deployment in Vietnam. Jacobs writes with a lively, punchy style that makes his work both entertaining and instructive."-Michael Latham, author of Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and 'Nation Building' in the Kennedy Era, "Seth Jacobs makes a seminal contribution to the study of the origins of American involvement in Vietnam. Combining prodigious research in a rich variety of primary sources, a sophisticated conceptual framework that illuminates the intersection of high politics and popular culture, and an especially engaging writing style, Jacobs fundamentally recasts how we view this critical period in the history of the Vietnam wars and the Cold War."-Mark Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 19191950, “Seth Jacobs’s interesting and provocative argument adds a new interpretation to the massive literature on the United States and the path toward full deployment in Vietnam. Jacobs writes with a lively, punchy style that makes his work both entertaining and instructive.�-Michael Latham, author of Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and ‘Nation Building’ in the Kennedy Era, “Seth Jacobs makes a seminal contribution to the study of the origins of American involvement in Vietnam. Combining prodigious research in a rich variety of primary sources, a sophisticated conceptual framework that illuminates the intersection of high politics and popular culture, and an especially engaging writing style, Jacobs fundamentally recasts how we view this critical period in the history of the Vietnam wars and the Cold War.�-Mark Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950, "Seth Jacobs makes a seminal contribution to the study of the origins of American involvement in Vietnam. Combining prodigious research in a rich variety of primary sources, a sophisticated conceptual framework that illuminates the intersection of high politics and popular culture, and an especially engaging writing style, Jacobs fundamentally recasts how we view this critical period in the history of the Vietnam wars and the Cold War."--Mark Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950, "In combining a history of American cultural politics of the 1950s with a careful examination of American diplomacy toward Diem, Seth Jacobs creates a rich and engaging narrative, one that advances our understanding of Vietnamese-American relations in innovative, original, and important ways. Jacobs fundamentally recasts how we view this critical period in the history of Vietnam and the Cold War." Mark Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950"Seth Jacobs makes a seminal contribution to the study of the origins of American involvement in Vietnam. Combining prodigious research in a rich variety of primary sources, a sophisticated conceptual framework that illuminates the intersection of high politics and popular culture, and an especially engaging writing style, Jacobs fundamentally recasts how we view this critical period in the history of the Vietnam wars and the Cold War."-Mark Bradley, author of Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 "Seth Jacobs's interesting and provocative argument adds a new interpretation to the massive literature on the United States and the path toward full deployment in Vietnam. Jacobs writes with a lively, punchy style that makes his work both entertaining and instructive."-Michael Latham, author of Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and 'Nation Building' in the Kennedy Era, "Seth Jacobs's interesting and provocative argument adds a new interpretation to the massive literature on the United States and the path toward full deployment in Vietnam. Jacobs writes with a lively, punchy style that makes his work both entertaining and instructive."--Michael Latham, author of Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and 'Nation Building' in the Kennedy Era
Table of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "Colonialism, Communism, or Catholicism?": Mr. Diem Goes to Washington 25 2. "Our System Demands the Supreme Being": America's Third Great Awakening 60 3. "These People Aren't Complicated": America's "Asia" at Midcentury 88 4. "Christ Crucified in Indo-China": Tom Dooley and the North Vietnamese Refugees 127 5. "The Sects and the Gangs Mean to Get Rid of the Saint": "Lightning Joe" Collins and the Battle for Saigon 172 6. "This God-Fearing Anti-Communist": The Vietnam Lobby and the Selling of Ngo Dinh Diem 217 Conclusion 263 Notes 277 Bibliography 339 Index 367
Copyright Date
2004
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2004-012452
Dewey Decimal
327.730597/09/045
Intended Audience
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Series
American Encounters/Global Interactions Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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