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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Thirty-eight readings that best exemplify the conflicting ideas and theories about U.S. intervention in Vietnam<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877227090&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="773_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>To Reason Why</h1>
<H2>The Debate about the Causes of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War</H2>
<h3>edited by Jeffrey P. Kimball</h3>
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<BR> 216 pp
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</P><p>This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the major theories about the causes of American involvement in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1975. Presenting the often conflicting arguments advanced by national leaders, policy makers, strategists, historians, social scientists, journalists, and activists, this volume represents the major reasons why and how the U.S. became involved, diplomatically and militarily, in the quagmire of Vietnam. As the first book to focus on the debate about the reasoning and causes of U.S. involvement, it fills a major gap in the study of the Vietnam war.
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Introduction
<p><b>Part I: The Official View: The U.S. Government's Public Explanation</b>
<br>1. The Munich Analogy and the International Communist Conspiracy – Harry S. Truman
<br>2. Falling Dominoes – Dwight D. Eisenhower
<br>3. Capitalist vs. Communist Economic Growth – Dwight D. Eisenhower
<br>4. Wars of National Liberation – John F. Kennedy
<br>5. Chinese Dominoes – John F. Kennedy
<br>6. Commitment and Credibility – Lyndon B. Johnson
<br>7. Still Fighting against the Munich Analogy – Lyndon B. Johnson
<br>8. Nightmares of Crucifixion – Lyndon B. Johnson
<br>9. Talking to the Dominoes – Richard M. Nixon
<p><b>Part II: States of Mind: Abstract Ideas, Ideals, and Strategic Concepts</b>
<br>10. Images of the Past – G�ran Rystad
<br>11. Unquestioned Assumptions – The Pentagon Papers
<br> 12. Avoiding Humiliation and Preserving the Pillar of Peace – The Pentagon Papers
<br>13. Psychological Reality Worlds – Ralph K. White
<br>14. Liberal Idealism – Graham Greene
<br>15. Arrogance of Power – J. William Fulbright
<br>16. Moral Anticommunism – Norman Podhoretz
<br>17. Credibility and Limited War – Jonathan Schell
<p><b>Part III: The Process of Involvement: Stumbling into the Quagmire or Knowingly Accepting Stalemate?</b>
<br>18. The Politics of Inadvertence – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
<br>19. Discovering the Quagmire – Henry Kissinger
<br>20. How the System Worked – Leslie H. Gelb
<br>21. Cycles of Optimism and Pessimism – Daniel Ellsberg
<p><b>Part IV: The Buck Stops Here: The President as Primary Cause</b>
<br>22. JFK: A Can-Do President – Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford. and Kenneth J. Hagan
<br>23. Accidents of History: JFK and LBJ Compared – Bernard Brodie
<br>24. LBJ and Presidential Machismo – David Halberstam
<br>25. Nixon and the Imperial Presidency – Arthur M. Schlesinger. Jr.
<p><b>Part V: The Advisers: Managers and Bureaucrats</b>
<br>26. An Autopsy of the Bureaucracy – James C. Thomson, Jr.
<br>27. Bureaucracy's Call for U.S. Ground Troops – George McTurnan Kahin
<br>28. Careerism and Ego Investment – Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
<br>29. The Pentagon Propaganda Machine – J. William Fulbright
<p><b>Part VI: Pressures and Aims: Politics and Economics</b>
<br>30. Foreign Policy and Electoral Politics – Richard J. Barnet
<br>31. Lobbyists for Diem: Politics in the U.S. and Vietnam – George McTurnan Kahin
<br>32. Pax Americana Economicus – Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
<br>33. The Drive for a Global Political Economy – Gabriel Kolko
<br>34. Neocolonial Aggression – Nguyen Khac Vien and Vo Nguyen Giap
<p><b>Part VII: Ways of Living: Cultural Misunderstanding and Conflict</b>
<br>35. Culture of the Earth – Frances FitzGerald
<br>36. American Exceptionalism – Loren Baritz
<br>37. Technowar – James William Gibson
<br>38. The Combative Structure of the English Language – John M. Del Vecchio
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Jeffrey P. Kimball</b> is Associate Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio.</P>
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