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Fire and Rain
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
Buch von Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
Sprache: Englisch

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Offering a fresh perspective on the American war in Southeast Asia and superpower diplomacy during the Nixon-Kissinger years, this gripping work drawing on thousands of declassified documents and tapes to provide a startling account of the mpact of high-level decisions in Washington on people in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the United States.
Offering a fresh perspective on the American war in Southeast Asia and superpower diplomacy during the Nixon-Kissinger years, this gripping work drawing on thousands of declassified documents and tapes to provide a startling account of the mpact of high-level decisions in Washington on people in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the United States.
Über den Autor
Carolyn Woods Eisenberg is a Professor of US History and American Foreign Relations at Hofstra University. She is the author of Drawing the Line: the American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-49, winner of the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Herbert Hoover Book Prize and a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Book Prize. She has written op-eds and done media appearances for numerous outlets, including the New York Times, National Public Radio, Fox, and C-SPAN. She has been a consultant to several members of Congress and is legislative coordinator for Historians for Peace and Democracy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "This is Not Frivolous, Mr. Chairman!"

Part I: The War

Chapter 1:"Mired in Stalemate"
Chapter 2:"We Will Hit Them without Warning"
Chapter 3:"I See Death Coming Up the Hill"
Chapter 4:"It Makes Our Position Murder"
Chapter 5:"Blow Their Candles Out"
Chapter 6:"You Shouldn't Kill That Many"
Chapter 7:"The Idealists Are the Builders"
Chapter 8:"Hit 'Em in the Gut"
Chapter 9:"The Great Mystery of Life"
Chapter 10:"The Greatest Success"
Chapter 11:"Enjoy the Breeze"
Chapter 12:"We Might Have Burned Your House"
Chapter 13:"Something Like a Moron"
Chapter 14:"Take A Stinking Hill"
Chapter 15:"Everyone Was Crying"
Chapter 16:"Bring Our Brothers Home"

Part II: War and Diplomacy

Chapter 17:"You've Only Got One Card"
Chapter 18:"Man of Peace"
Chapter 19:"Knock the Shit Out of Them"
Chapter 20:"Seize the Hour! Seize the Day"
Chapter 21:"The Whole Ground Shakes"
Chapter 22:"Let Us Think of Tanya"
Chapter 23:"Four More Years"
Chapter 24:"You're Three for Three, Mr. President"
Chapter 25:"Miserable, Filthy People"
Chapter 26:"A Terrific Let-down"
Chapter 27:"Let the Americans See Me"
Epilogue:"We Were Serious People!"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197639061
ISBN-10: 0197639062
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Eisenberg, Carolyn Woods
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 235 x 168 x 50 mm
Von/Mit: Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,975 kg
Artikel-ID: 121981614
Über den Autor
Carolyn Woods Eisenberg is a Professor of US History and American Foreign Relations at Hofstra University. She is the author of Drawing the Line: the American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-49, winner of the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Herbert Hoover Book Prize and a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Book Prize. She has written op-eds and done media appearances for numerous outlets, including the New York Times, National Public Radio, Fox, and C-SPAN. She has been a consultant to several members of Congress and is legislative coordinator for Historians for Peace and Democracy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "This is Not Frivolous, Mr. Chairman!"

Part I: The War

Chapter 1:"Mired in Stalemate"
Chapter 2:"We Will Hit Them without Warning"
Chapter 3:"I See Death Coming Up the Hill"
Chapter 4:"It Makes Our Position Murder"
Chapter 5:"Blow Their Candles Out"
Chapter 6:"You Shouldn't Kill That Many"
Chapter 7:"The Idealists Are the Builders"
Chapter 8:"Hit 'Em in the Gut"
Chapter 9:"The Great Mystery of Life"
Chapter 10:"The Greatest Success"
Chapter 11:"Enjoy the Breeze"
Chapter 12:"We Might Have Burned Your House"
Chapter 13:"Something Like a Moron"
Chapter 14:"Take A Stinking Hill"
Chapter 15:"Everyone Was Crying"
Chapter 16:"Bring Our Brothers Home"

Part II: War and Diplomacy

Chapter 17:"You've Only Got One Card"
Chapter 18:"Man of Peace"
Chapter 19:"Knock the Shit Out of Them"
Chapter 20:"Seize the Hour! Seize the Day"
Chapter 21:"The Whole Ground Shakes"
Chapter 22:"Let Us Think of Tanya"
Chapter 23:"Four More Years"
Chapter 24:"You're Three for Three, Mr. President"
Chapter 25:"Miserable, Filthy People"
Chapter 26:"A Terrific Let-down"
Chapter 27:"Let the Americans See Me"
Epilogue:"We Were Serious People!"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197639061
ISBN-10: 0197639062
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Eisenberg, Carolyn Woods
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 235 x 168 x 50 mm
Von/Mit: Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,975 kg
Artikel-ID: 121981614
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