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Auteur(s) : Miller, Edward Garvey (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Misalliance [Texte imprimé] : Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the fate of South Vietnam / Edward Miller
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (419 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Man of faith ; New beginnings ; The making of an alliance ; Revolutions and republics
; Settlers and engineers ; Countering insurgents ; Limited partners ; Mixed signals
; The unmaking of an alliance.
Note(s) : "As leader of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963, Ngo Dinh Diem was hailed by some as
a "miracle man" who had saved his country from communism. Others denounced him as
a U.S. puppet or as a reactionary mandarin. In Misalliance, Edward Miller refutes
these simplistic caricatures and presents a new interpretation of Diem and the rise
and fall of his alliance with the United States. Drawing on American, French, and
Vietnamese archival sources, Miller shows how Diem engineered his own rise to power
and outmaneuvered his rivals in Saigon during the mid-1950s. He then embarked on an
ambitious program of nation building that was based not on the advice offered by his
U.S. advisors, but on his own vision of Vietnam's modernization. Overturning the conventional
wisdom about Diem, Miller shows that he was a man with a plan--a plan that turned
out to be deeply flawed, with disastrous consequences for both Vietnam and the United
States"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Ngô, Đình Diệm (1901-1963)
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- Vietnam (République)
Politique et gouvernement -- Vietnam (République)
Relations extérieures -- Vietnam (République) -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674072985 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674072987 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436618896
Notice n° :
FRBNF43661889
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