Death of a generation : how the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War /

Jones delivers an informative narrative documenting in rather elaborate detail a popular theory of JFK and Vietnam advanced previously by such writers as Richard Mahoney and Richard Reeves: that had Kennedy lived, US involvement in Vietnam would not have escalated as it did.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jones, Howard, 1940-2022
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Assassination. Ngô, Đình Diệm, > 1901-1963 > Assassination. Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Assassinat. Ngô, Đình Diệm, > 1901-1963 > Assassinat. Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 Ngô, Đình Diệm, > 1901-1963 Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Vietnam Conflict Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975. HISTORY > Military > Vietnam War. Assassination 1961 - 1975 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : toward a tragedy
Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam : averting a quagmire
Democracy at bay : Diem as mandarin
Counteraction to counterinsurgency : the military solution
Waging a secret war
Subterfuge in the delta
Strange seduction of Vietnam
Decent veil of hypocrisy
De-Americanizing the secret war
From escalation to disengagement
End of the tunnel? A comprehensive plan for South Vietnam
Mandate from heaven? The Buddhist crisis and the demise of de-escalation
Fire this time
Road to a coup
At the brink of a coup--again
Toward a partial withdrawal
President Kennedy's decision to withdraw
Fall of the house of Ngo
Conclusion : the tragedy of JFK.