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Vietnam if Kennedy had lived : virtual JFK / James G. Blight, Janet M. Lang, and David A. Welch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blight, James G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Presidents--United States--Decision making.
- Presidents.
- Imaginary histories.
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Kennedy, John F.
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (454 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tackling head-on the most controversial and debated 'what if' in U.S. foreign policy, this provocative work explores what President John F. Kennedy would have done in Vietnam had he not been assassinated in 1963. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House officials from both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the analysis of top historians, this book presents compelling evidence that JFK was ready to end U.S. involvement well before the conflict escalated. With vivid immediacy, readers will feel they are in the president's war room as
- Contents:
- frontmatter; contents; foreword; prologue; chapter 1; chapter 2; chapter 3; chapter 4; chapter 5; chapter 6; epilogue; appendix a; appendix b; credits; endnotes; acronyms; acknowledgments; index; about the authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-398) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-49619-0
- 9786612496196
- 0-7425-5765-0
- OCLC:
- 396923840
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