Book Description This book provides a brief
and manageable collection of the most important documents on U.S.
policymaking in the Vietnam War between 1950 and 1968. Edited by the
foremost Vietnam historian, this supplementary text can be used in
conjunction with any history of the Vietnam war--Herring's own
America's Longest War, for example.
About the
Author George C. Herring is Alumni Professor of history at the
University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in History from the
University of Virginia and taught at Ohio University before moving to the
University of Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and
essays, including The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating
Volumes of the Pentagon Papers (1983) and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different
Kind of War (1994). He served as editor of the scholarly journal
Diplomatic History from 1982 to 1986 and was President of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1990. In 1991, he served as
Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New
Zealand and from 1993 to 1994, he was Visiting Professor of History at the
U.S. Military Academy, West Point.
Prepare to have your trust in government
shattered. It illustrates the "credibility gap" during the Vietnam
War, i.e., the gap between what Johnson and Kennedy were saying to
the public and what was actually happening in Vietnam. The
administrations constantly lie to the American public on our
progress in the war. What's most interesting is reading these
documents alongside speeches made to the public during this time by
McNamara and Johnson. It's quite startling. Read this
book.
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