LBJ and Vietnam

by George C. Herring

Book Overview

Decades later, the Vietnam War remains a divisive memory for American society. Partisans on all sides still debate why the war was fought, how it could have been better fought, and whether it could have been won at all.

In this major study, a noted expert on the war brings a needed objectivity to these debates by examining dispassionately how and why President Lyndon Johnson and his administration conducted the war as they did. Drawing on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292731078
• ISBN13: 9780292731073
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"