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Author Schmitz, David F., author.

Title Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War : the end of the American century / David F. Schmitz.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  959.704 S355R    Check Shelf
Edition First paperback edition.
Description xvi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Vietnam : America in the War years
Vietnam--America in the war years (Unnumbered)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The necessity of the war in Vietnam -- The middle road to the White House -- Nixon takes over -- Expansion and crisis -- The end of the American century -- Denouement.
Summary President Richard Nixon's 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 "containment," protect America's credibility, and defy the left's antiwar movement at home. Tactically, politically, Nixon's 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. This book, authored by a foreign relations historian, is intended to provide an up-to-date analysis of Nixon's Vietnam policy in a concise and accessible way. The author addresses the main controversies of Nixon's 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 Nixon's 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. -- From publisher's website.
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
ISBN 1442262265
9781442262263
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