Bücher der Reihe Vietnam: America in the War Years

This book explores how and why Vietnam loomed so large for Humphrey as vice president from 1964 through the 1968 election campaign against Nixon, assessing the disconnect between Humphrey's principles and the intricate politics of his convoluted relationship with the president and his unsuccessful presidential campaign.

Analyzes what is arguably the most important event in the history of the Vietnam conflict. The author situates this book in the context of American foreign policy and the state of the war up to 1968 while carefully considering the impact of the media on American public opinion.

The anti- Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune. The author describes the origins and trajectory of the anti-Vietnam War movement in America. He also focuses on the way it affected policy and public opinion.

Explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players including Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, and more, the author shows the importance of domestic upheaval on the election.

In the midst of the Vietnam war, two titans of the Senate, J William Fulbright, and John C Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. This work provides comparative analysis of the inquiries and the senior southern Senators who led them.

For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the US financed his tyranny. This book traces the tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers in 1963.

In the first book-length treatment of Richard Nixon's Vietnamization policy, David L. Anderson explores the political and strategic implications and assesses its continuing, significant impact on American post-Vietnam foreign policy. Vietnamization will demand the attention of all scholars of post-World War II American foreign policy.