America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia

by Seth Jacobs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334402
• ISBN13: 9780822334408
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.9"