Lyndon Johnson’s War: America’s Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968

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Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Michael H. Hunt’s Lyndon Johnson’s War reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders more comprehensible–if no less troubling–the tangled origins of the war.