CONTENTS
Introduction:
The Vietnam War and Its Enduring Historical Relevance
PART I. Chronological Perspectives
1. Setting the Stage:
Vietnamese Revolutionary Nationalism and the First Vietnam War
2. “Dealing with a Government of Madmen”:
Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Ngo Dinh Diem
3. South Vietnam Under Siege, 1961–1965:
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Question of Escalation or Disengagement
4. Lyndon Johnson and the Bombing of Vietnam:
Politics and Military Choices
5. Turning Point:
The Vietnam War’s Pivotal Year, November 1967–November 1968
6. Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War:
The Paradox of Disengagement with Escalation
7. American Strategy in the Vietnam War
8. The Village War in Vietnam, 1965–1973
9. Fighting for Family:
Vietnamese Women and the American War
11. “Hey, Hey, LBJ!”:
American Domestic Politics and the Vietnam War
12. Cambodia and Laos in the Vietnam War
PART III. Postwar Perspectives