Jacobs / Joseph / Rosenberg America's Miracle Man in Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8608-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

Argues that American cultural conceptions of religion and race during the 1950s played a crucial role in framing an ideology through which U.S. policymakers understood their options in Vietnam.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, Seth

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. "Colonialism, Communism, or Catholicism?": Mr. Diem Goes to Washington 25

2. "Our System Demands the Supreme Being": America's Third Great Awakening 60

3. "These People Aren't Complicated": America's "Asia" at Midcentury 88

4. "Christ Crucified in Indo-China": Tom Dooley and the North Vietnamese Refugees 127

5. "The Sects and the Gangs Mean to Get Rid of the Saint": "Lightning Joe" Collins and the Battle for Saigon 172

6. "This God-Fearing Anti-Communist": The Vietnam Lobby and the Selling of Ngo Dinh Diem 217

Conclusion 263

Notes 277

Bibliography 339

Index 367

Über Autor(innen)

Seth Jacobs is Assistant Professor of History at Boston College.