Books
Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War by
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War incorporates a spate of new research and a number of recently declassified documents concerning the Vietnam War.
Location: Mugar Stacks DS557.7 .M355 2003Publication Date: 2002
Defining Documents in American History: The Vietnam War (1956-1975) by Location: ebooks Corporation (online access to BU)Publication Date: 2015- Vietnam, a guide to reference sources byLocation: Hathi Trust Digital LibraryPublication Date: 1977
- Vietnam, a guide to reference sources byLocation: Hathi Trust Digital LibraryPublication Date: 1977
Landmark Speeches by
Beginning more than sixty years ago, speechmakingasupported the U.S. commitment to South Vietnam. Rhetoric helped send more than a half-million troops to defend the Vietnamese government the United States had yet sponsored; that policy led to dissent, and ultimately, Congress forcing the executive branch to terminate U.S. involvement. The fourteen key speeches collected in this volume, from Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of the Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 to John Kerry's Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971, express the entire range of positions on the war, which contributed to the political and societal developments that ordained its course and outcome. They span the most volatile years of that period, framed in the words that shaped an era. These speeches include: Ho Chi Minh: Declaration of Independence, September 2, 1945John F. Kennedy: America's Stake in Vietnam, June 1, 1956Michael J. Mansfield: Interests and Policies in Southeast Asia, June 10, 1962Lyndon B. Johnson: Peace Without Conquest, April 7, 1965Paul Potter: Speech to the March on Washington, April 17, 1965George Aiken: Vietnam Analysis--Present and Future, October 19, 1966Robert F. Kennedy: On Viet Nam, March 2, 1967Martin Luther King Jr.: Beyond Vietnam, April 4, 1967Gen. William C. Westmoreland: Vietnam: The Situation Today, April 28, 1967Walter Cronkite: We Are Mired in Stalemate, February 27, 1968Lyndon B. Johnson: The President's Address to the Nation, March 31, 1968Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation, November 3, 1969 and April 30, 1970John Kerry: Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971
Location: Project Muse Ebooks 2010-2012; also print: Mugar Stacks DS557.4 .L36 2010Publication Date: 2010
A Vietnam War Reader by
An essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary sources opens a valuable window on an extraordinarily complex conflict. The materials gathered here, from both the American and Vietnamese sides, remind readers that the conflict touched the lives of many people in a wide range of social and political situations and spanned a good deal more time than the decade of direct U.S. combat. Indeed, the U.S. war was but one phase in a string of conflicts that varied significantly in character and geography. Michael Hunt brings together the views of the conflict's disparate players--from Communist leaders, Vietnamese peasants, Saigon loyalists, and North Vietnamese soldiers to U.S. policymakers, soldiers, and critics of the war. By allowing the participants to speak, this volume encourages readers to formulate their own historically grounded understanding of a still controversial struggle.
Location: ebrary; also print: Mugar Stacks DS557.4 .V626 2010Publication Date: 2010
The Day the Presses Stopped by Location: Mugar Stacks KF228.N52 R84 1996Publication Date: 1996Describes the Nixon administration's efforts to prohibit the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the 7,000-page, top-secret Pentagon Papers, which traced U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
The Best and the Brightest by Location: Mugar Stacks E841 .H25Publication Date: 1972
Vietnam by
"A landmark work...The most complete account to date of the Vietnam tragedy." -The Washington Post Book World This monumental narrative clarifies, analyzes, and demystifies the tragic ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its undertsanding, and compassionate in its human portrayls , it is filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with participants-French, American, Vietnamese, Chinese: diplomats, military commanders, high government officials, journalists, nurses, workers, and soldiers. Originally published a companion to the Emmy-winning PBS series, Karnow's defining book is a precursor to Ken Burns's ten-part forthcoming documentary series, The Vietnam War. Vietnam: A History puts events and decisions into such sharp focus that we come to understand - and make peace with - a convulsive epoch of our recent history. "This is history writing at its best." -Chicago Sun-Times "Even those of us who think we know something about it will read with fascination." -The New York Times
Location: Mugar Stacks DS558 .K37 1997Publication Date: 1997
A Bright Shining Lie by Location: Mugar Stacks DS558 .S47 1988Publication Date: 1988According to the 1988 Times review, “if there is one book that captures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book is it.”
Dereliction of Duty by
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." --H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. McMaster pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants. A page-turning narrative, Dereliction Of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, General Maxwell Taylor, McGeorge Bundy and other top aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Congress and the American public. McMaster's only book, Dereliction of Duty is an explosive and authoritative new look at the controversy concerning the United States involvement in Vietnam.
Location: Mugar Stacks DS558 .M43 1998Publication Date: 1998
In Retrospect by Location: Mugar Stacks DS558 .M44 1995Publication Date: 1995
Bloods by Location: Mugar Stacks DS559.5 .B56 1984Publication Date: 1984A "New York Times" Notable Book, his classic, powerful book--a nationally bestselling firsthand account of 20 African-American men who served in the Vietnam War.
