Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-61

by David L. Anderson

Book Overview

The Eisenhower Administration developed and implemented policies in Southeast Asia that contributed directly to the massive American military involvement in Vietnam in the decade after Dwight Eisenhower left office. Working with the most recently declassified government records on U.S. policy in Vietnam in the 1950s, David L. Anderson asserts that the Eisenhower Administration was less successful in Vietnam than the revisionists suggests.Trapped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231073755
• ISBN13: 9780231073752
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Recommended by Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 295

This book is on the "Recommended Reading List" of Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 295, Indianapolis, Indiana