doi:10.1002/polq.12679WAR After the War: The Struggle for Credibility During America's Exit From Vietnam, The (Book)KADURA, JohannesINTERNATIONAL relationsNONFICTIONToner, SimonPolitical Science Quarterly (Oxford University Press / USA)
Both JFK and LBJ had serious reservations about going to war in Vietnam. However, domestic political concerns, together with concerns about containing the spread of communism, always came up trumps. For example, the series quotes Kennedy as saying he believed America couldn’t win in Vietnam, ...
containment colored his actions when the country of Vietnam began to fall to communism. Even when the tragic cost of sending troops became apparent to Kennedy, he maintained the firm conviction that America’s participation in the war was not only important, but necessary. In a letter to ...
The 1924 Immigration Act vilified, dehumanized, and barred many of those immigrants who have made America great, like Italian Americans being demeaned in this cartoon. Yet, some descendants of those unfairly targeted appear oblivious to the mistakes of the past and willing to inflict the same im...
In lieu of an , here is a brief excerpt of the content: Journal of Cold War Studies 2.2 (2000) 109-111 Book Reviews Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vi...
Korea: The War Before Vietnam. By Callum A. MacDonald. London: MacMillan, 1986. xx, 330 pp.The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command. By Burton I. Kaufman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. xii, 381 pp. $3......
She made inventive and often challenging movies that offered different and differing perpsectives on a variety of subjects, from the Black Panthers to her husband Jacques Demy, to murals found in Los Angeles and the North Vietnamese Army during the time of the Vietnam war. Varda’s ...
”1 In the case of films dealing with the Vietnam War, this capacity proves central to the creation of cultural memory regarding the event. The films’ diegesis, its represented reality, which is constituted of sound and images, engages in a process of interaction with established historical ...
(and later press secretary for the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese), fares well if perhaps a bit stiffly with Queneau’s wordplay. But even the most ham-fisted translator can’t interfere too badly when working with a writer so obviously enjoying his wordplay...
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