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Choosing War

Fredrik Logevall

1999557 pagesabout 9–13 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999University of California Press · 557 pages · ENGISBN 9780520927117
  • 1999University of California Press · 557 pages · ENGISBN 9780520215115
  • 2001University of California Press · 557 pages · ENGISBN 9780520229198

"In Choosing War Fredrik Logevall presents the first truly comprehensive examination of the making of a major war in Vietnam in 1963-65. Placing U.S. decision making in its wider international and domestic political contexts, he shows that the Vietnam War was unnecessary, not merely in hindsight but from the perspective of key players at the time, American-officials chose war over disengagement despite deep pessimism about U.S. prospects in the war and over the objections of important voices in the United States and abroad."--BOOK JACKET.

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