Vietnams Second Front

Author : Andrew L. Johns
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813139554
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Second Front written by Andrew L. Johns and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of domestic politics on the Vietnam War are revealed in this groundbreaking historical study by the author of The Price of Loyalty. In Vietnam's Second Front, Andrew L.Johns examines how American domestic politics effected the Vietnam War. He pays special attention to the role of the Republican Party, from the Nixon administration to grassroots organizations. The revealing analysis sheds new light on the relationship between Congress and the imperial presidency as they struggled for control over US foreign policy. Johns argues that, from 1961 through the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations failed to achieve victory on both fronts of the Vietnam War―military and political―because of their preoccupation with domestic politics. Johns details the political dexterity required of all three presidents and of members of Congress to maneuver between the countervailing forces of escalation and negotiation, offering a provocative account of the ramifications of their decisions. With clear, incisive prose and extensive archival research, Johns's analysis covers the broad range of the Republican Party's impact on the Vietnam War, offers a compelling reassessment of responsibility for the conflict, and challenges assumptions about the roles of Congress and the president in US foreign relations./

Author : Andrew L. Johns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813135427
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Second Front written by Andrew L. Johns and published by . This book was released on with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War has been analyzed, dissected, and debated from multiple perspectives for decades, but domestic considerations-such as partisan politics and election-year maneuvering-are often overlooked as determining factors in the evolution and outcome of America's longest war. In Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party- its congressional leadership, politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration-on the escalation, prosecution, and resolution of the Vietnam War. This groun.

Author : Lawrence Allen Eldridge
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272592
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of a Two-Front War written by Lawrence Allen Eldridge and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war overshadowed the civil rights movement in the minds of politicians and the public, it seemed that further progress might never come. For many African Americans, the bloodshed, loss, and disappointment of war became just another chapter in the history of the civil rights movement. Lawrence Allen Eldridge explores this two-front war, showing how the African American press grappled with the Vietnam War and its impact on the struggle for civil rights. Written in a clear narrative style, Chronicles of a Two-Front War is the first book to examine coverage of the Vietnam War by black news publications, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964 to the final withdrawal of American ground forces in the spring of 1973 and the fall of Saigon in the spring of 1975. Eldridge reveals how the black press not only reported the war but also weighed its significance in the context of the civil rights movement. The author researched seventeen African American newspapers, including the Chicago Defender, the Baltimore Afro-American, and the New Courier, and two magazines, Jet and Ebony. He augmented the study with a rich array of primary sources—including interviews with black journalists and editors, oral history collections, the personal papers of key figures in the black press, and government documents, including those from the presidential libraries of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford—to trace the ups and downs of U.S. domestic and wartime policy especially as it related to the impact of the war on civil rights. Eldridge examines not only the role of reporters during the war, but also those of editors, commentators, and cartoonists. Especially enlightening is the research drawn from extensive oral histories by prominent journalist Ethel Payne, the first African American woman to receive the title of war correspondent. She described a widespread practice in black papers of reworking material from major white papers without providing proper credit, as the demand for news swamped the small budgets and limited staffs of African American papers. The author analyzes both the strengths of the black print media and the weaknesses in their coverage. The black press ultimately viewed the Vietnam War through the lens of African American experience, blaming the war for crippling LBJ’s Great Society and the War on Poverty. Despite its waning hopes for an improved life, the black press soldiered on.

Author : John R. MacArthur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520242319
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Front written by John R. MacArthur and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John R. MacArthur -- who is the publisher of Harper's Magazine -- examines the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the U.S. media during the 1991 gulf war. With a new preface.

Author : Tim Page
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Vietnam written by Tim Page and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These and a hundred other images are seared into our consciousness - but a very different viewpoint appears in this vision of three decades of war in Vietnam.".

Author : Andrew L. Johns
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173698
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Second Front written by Andrew L. Johns and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War has been analyzed, dissected, and debated from multiple perspectives for decades, but domestic considerations—such as partisan politics and election-year maneuvering—are often overlooked as determining factors in the evolution and outcome of America's longest war. In Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party— its congressional leadership, politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration—on the escalation, prosecution, and resolution of the Vietnam War. This groundbreaking work also sheds new light on the relationship between Congress and the imperial presidency as they struggled for control over U.S. foreign policy. Beginning his analysis in 1961 and continuing through the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, Johns argues that the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations failed to achieve victory on both fronts of the Vietnam War—military and political—because of their preoccupation with domestic politics. Johns details the machinations and political dexterity required of all three presidents and of members of Congress to maneuver between the countervailing forces of escalation and negotiation, offering a provocative account of the ramifications of their decisions. With clear, incisive prose and extensive archival research, Johns's analysis covers the broad range of the Republican Party's impact on the Vietnam War, offers a compelling reassessment of responsibility for the conflict, and challenges assumptions about the roles of Congress and the president in U.S. foreign relations.

Author : James E. Westheider
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081479324X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting on Two Fronts written by James E. Westheider and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dramatic history of race relations during the Vietnam War, James E. Westheider illustrates how American soldiers in Vietnam grappled with many of the same racial conflicts that were roiling their homeland thousands of miles away. Over seven years in the making, Fighting on Two Fronts draws on interviews with dozens of Vietnam veterans - black and white - and official Pentagon documents to paint the first complete picture of the African American experience in Vietnam.

Author : Anthony Trawick Bouscaren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Quiet on the Eastern Front written by Anthony Trawick Bouscaren and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas C Thayer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100000886X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Without Fronts written by Thomas C Thayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique source of information about U.S. troop involvement in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1972. It stresses that Vietnam was a war without fronts or battle lines—a war different from any that the United States had previously fought.

Author : Brian Fitzgerald
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781410921932
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting the Vietnam War written by Brian Fitzgerald and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a look at the history of the Vietnam War, examining the reasons the United States became involved in the conflict, how the fighting was conducted. Includes real-life stories and photographs.