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Author |
: Joseph A. Fry |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742544362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742544369 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating Vietnam by : Joseph A. Fry
In the midst of the Vietnam War, two titans of the Senate, J. William Fulbright and John C. Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. In this intriguing new work, historian Joseph A. Fry provides the first comparative analysis of these inquiries and the senior southern Senators who led them. The Senators' shared aim was to alter the Johnson administration's strategy and bring an end to the war--but from dramatically different perspectives. Fulbright hoped to pressure Johnson to halt escalation and seek a negotiated settlement, while Stennis wanted to prompt the President to bomb North Vietnam more aggressively and secure a victorious end to the war. Publicized and televised, these hearings added fuel to the fire of national debate over Vietnam policy and captured the many arguments of both hawks and doves. Fry details the dramatic confrontations between the Senate committees and the administration spokesmen, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, and he probes the success of congressional efforts to influence Vietnam policy. Ultimately, Fry shows how the Fulbright and Stennis hearings provide vivid insight into the debate over why the United States was involved in Vietnam and how the war should be conducted.
Author |
: David W. Levy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1995-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015035011058 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Debate Over Vietnam by : David W. Levy
"Levy's prose is eminently readable, his focus always clear, the connections between major points always apparent, and his tempo just right." -- American Studies International
Author |
: John Norton Moore |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015019827925 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vietnam Debate by : John Norton Moore
Author |
: George Bogaski |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2014-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739179970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739179977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Protestants and the Debate over the Vietnam War by : George Bogaski
As American soldiers fought overseas in Vietnam, American churchmen debated the legitimacy and impact of the war at home. While the justness of the war was the primary issue, they also argued over conscientious objection, the legitimacy of protests, the weapons of war, and other related topics. Divided into three primary groups—mainline, conservative evangelical, and African American—and including fourteen denominations, this book uses the churchmen’s publications and proceedings to better understand how American religion responded to and was impacted by the Vietnam War. In the various debates, churchmen brought their theological convictions and reading of the Bible to bear on their political perspectives. Convictions about sin, the nature of man, the fate of the world, violence and benevolence had direct impact upon the foreign policy perspectives of these churches. Rather than result in static political positions, these convictions adapted as the nature of the war and the likelihood of American success changed over time. The positions taken by American denominations brought about attitudes of support, opposition, and ambivalence toward the war, but also impacted the vibrancy of many churches. Some groups were rent asunder by the fractious, debilitating debate. Other churches, due to their greater ideological clarity and unanimity, saw the war provide an impetus for growth. Regardless of the individual consequences, the debate over the Vietnam War provides a concrete study of the intersection of religion and politics.
Author |
: Jeffrey P. Kimball |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2005-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781597523875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1597523879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Reason Why by : Jeffrey P. Kimball
This book is about the past and continuing debate over the causes of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It brings together readings that best exemplify the widely varying answers that historians, political scientists, social scientists, policymakers, journalists, and novelists have given to the essential question of American involvement: why did the U.S. intervene diplomatically and militarily in Vietnam between 1945 and 1975?Ó --from the Preface To Reason Why breaks new ground in covering and analyzing this issue. Kimball has gathered together thirty-eight readings -- including speeches, interviews, and articles -- that best exemplify the conflicting ideas and theories about the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Among these thirty-eight readings are excerpts from David Halberstam, Daniel Ellsberg, Frances FitzGerald, Henry Kissinger, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
Author |
: Jonathan Mermin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 1999-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691005348 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691005346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating War and Peace by : Jonathan Mermin
The First Amendment allows American journalists to present critical perspectives on government policies and actions. But are the media independent of government in practice? This book argues that, in the case of the military, they are not.
Author |
: Louis B. Zimmer |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739137697 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739137697 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vietnam War Debate by : Louis B. Zimmer
Background to a needless war -- Morgenthau and Bundy : the Harvard dean fails the Vietnam reality test -- Media neglect of the national interest -- Morgenthau and Schlesinger and the national interest -- Morgenthau and the Council on Foreign Relations -- Morgenthau's influence, Fulbright's conversion and the stupidity of smart men -- "What I have said recently, I have been saying for years without anybody paying attention.
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: PURD:32754074679683 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis the Cambodia-Vietnam debate by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Author |
: Petros Apostolopoulos |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2024-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111069951 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111069958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Producing and Debating History by : Petros Apostolopoulos
Author |
: David J. Lorenzo |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2015-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317401988 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317401980 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating War by : David J. Lorenzo
What arguments have critics of American wars and interventions put forward, and what arguments do they currently employ? Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau, John Calhoun, the Anti-Imperialist League, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ron Paul (among others) have criticized proposals to intervene in other countries, enter wars, acquire foreign territory, and engage in a forward defense posture. Despite cogent objections, they have also generally lost the argument. Why do they lose? This book provides answers to these questions through a survey of oppositional arguments over time, augmented by the views of contemporary critics, including those of Ron Paul, Chalmers Johnson and Noam Chomsky. Author David J. Lorenzo demonstrates how and why a significant number of arguments are dismissed as irrelevant, unpatriotic, overly pessimistic, or radically out of the mainstream. Other lines of reasoning might provide a compelling critique of wars and interventions from a wide variety of perspectives – and still lose. Evaluating oppositional arguments in detail allows the reader to understand problems likely to be faced in the context of policy discussions, to grasp important political differences and the potential for alliances among critics, and ultimately to influence decision-making and America’s place in the international power structure.