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America's miracle man in Vietnam : Ngo Dinh Diem, religion, race, and U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 / Seth Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Seth, 1964-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ngo, inh Diem, 1901-1963.
- Ngo, inh Diem.
- United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam (Republic).
- United States.
- Vietnam (Republic)--Foreign relations--United States.
- Vietnam (Republic).
- United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- "Colonialism, communism, or Catholicism?" : Mr. Diem goes to Washington
- "Our system demands the supreme being" : America's third great awakening
- "These people aren't complicated" : America's "Asia" at midcentury
- "Christ crucified in Indo-China" : Tom Dooley and the North Vietnamese refugees
- "The sects and the gangs mean to get rid of the saint" : "Lightning Joe" Collins and the battle for Saigon
- "This god-fearing anti-communist" : the Vietnam lobby and the selling of Ngo Dinh Diem.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613023940
- 9781283023948
- 1283023946
- 9780822386087
- 0822386089
- OCLC:
- 608922157
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