RECENT STUDIES ON THE UNITED STATES AND VIETNAM


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David L. Anderson, Facing My Lai: Moving Beyond the Massacre (1998)

David L. Anderson (ed.), Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 1945-1975 (1993)

David L. Anderson, Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-1961 (1991)

Christian G. Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (1993)

Keith Beattie, The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War (1998)

Larry Berman, Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam (1989)

Robert Buzzanco, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (1999)

H.W. Brands, The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1995)

William Bundy, A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency (1998)

Robert Buzzanco, Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996)

Mark Clodfelter, The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam (1989)

Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (eds.), Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy, 1963-1968 (1994)

Charles De Benedetti and Charles Chatfield, An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era (1990)

W. D. Ehrhart. Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 and the Vietnam War (1999)

Lloyd C. Gardner, Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam (1995)

Kenneth Heineman, Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era (1993)

Paul Hendrickson, The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996)

George C. Herring, America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (3rd edition, 1995)

George C. Herring, LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (1994)

Michael H. Hunt, Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam (1996)

David Kaiser, American Tragedy (2000)

Lawrence Kaplan, Denise Artaud, and Mark R. Rubin (eds.), Dienbienphu and the Crisis in Franco-American Relations, 1954-1955 (1990)

Yuen Foong Khong, Analogies at War - Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu - The Vietnam Decisions of 1965 (1992)

Jeffrey P. Kimball, Nixon's Vietnam War (1998)

Jeffrey P. Kimball (ed.), To Reason Why: The Debate About the Causes of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War (1990)

David W. Levy, The Debate over Vietnam (1991)

Frederick Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (1999)

George Donelson Moss, Vietnam: An American Ordeal (1989)

Robert S. McNamara, Argument Without End (1999)

__________________, In Retrospect (1995)

Edwin E. Moise, Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (1996)

John M. Newman, JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power (1992)

James S. Olson and Randy Roberts, Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945-1990 (1991)

Thomas Powers, Vietnam, The War at Home: The Antiwar Movement, 1964-1968 (1984)

Robert Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (1997)

Anthony Short, The Origins of the Vietnam War (1989)

Melvin Small, Covering Dissent: the Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1994)

R.B. Smith, An International History of the Vietnam War, Vol. 1 (1983), Vol. 2 (1985)

William S. Turley, The Second Indochina War: A Short Political and Military History, 1954-1975 (1986)

Brian VanDeMark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (1991)

Tom Wells, The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam (1994)

Clarence R. Wyatt, Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam War (1993)

Marilyn B. Young, The Vietnam Wars: 1945-1990 (1991)