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The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election
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The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election / Walter LaFeber.
ISBN
0742543919 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742543927 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
Physical Description
x, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 23, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.
Contents
General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive
Senator Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade
Lyndon Johnson : "people grow tired of confusion"
Martin Luther King : the dream
Robert Kennedy : the "national soul"
Richard Nixon : the candidate from Squaresville?
Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the politics of joy
George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era
Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors.
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