Books in the Vietnam: America in the War Years series

This book explores how and why Vietnam loomed so large for Humphrey as vice president from 1964 through the 1968 election campaign against Nixon, assessing the disconnect between Humphrey's principles and the intricate politics of his convoluted relationship with the president and his unsuccessful presidential campaign.

Analyzes what is arguably the most important event in the history of the Vietnam conflict. The author situates this book in the context of American foreign policy and the state of the war up to 1968 while carefully considering the impact of the media on American public opinion.

The anti- Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune. The author describes the origins and trajectory of the anti-Vietnam War movement in America. He also focuses on the way it affected policy and public opinion.

Explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players including Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, and more, the author shows the importance of domestic upheaval on the election.

In the midst of the Vietnam war, two titans of the Senate, J William Fulbright, and John C Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. This work provides comparative analysis of the inquiries and the senior southern Senators who led them.

For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the US financed his tyranny. This book traces the tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers in 1963.

In Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, accomplished foreign relations historian David F. Shmitz provides students of US history and the Vietnam era with an up-to-date analysis of NixonΓÇÖs Vietnam policy in a brief and accessible book that addresses the main controversies of the Nixon years. President Richard NixonΓÇÖs first presidential term oversaw the definitive crucible of the Vietnam War. Nixon came into office seeking the kind of decisive victory that had eluded President Johnson, and went about expanding the war, overtly and covertly, in order to uphold a policy of ΓÇ£containment,ΓÇ¥ protect AmericaΓÇÖs credibility, and defy the leftΓÇÖs antiwar movement at home. Tactically, politically, NixonΓÇÖs moves made sense. However, by 1971 the president was forced to significantly de-escalate the American presence and seek a negotiated end to the war, which is now accepted as an American defeat, and a resounding failure of American foreign relations. Schmitz addresses the main controversies of NixonΓÇÖs Vietnam strategy, and in so doing manages to trace back the ways in which this most calculating and perceptive politician wound up resigning from office a fraud and failure. Finally, the book seeks to place the impact of NixonΓÇÖs policies and decisions in the larger context of post-World War II American society, and analyzes the full costs of the Vietnam War that the nation feels to this day.

In the first book-length treatment of Richard Nixon's Vietnamization policy, David L. Anderson explores the political and strategic implications and assesses its continuing, significant impact on American post-Vietnam foreign policy. Vietnamization will demand the attention of all scholars of post-World War II American foreign policy.