Companion to the Vietnam War

Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy (1969) and The Vietnam Wars (1991), winner of the Berkshire Women’s History Prize. She is the co-author of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (with William Rosenberg, 1980), Promissory Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (with Rayna Rapp and Sonia Kruks, 1983), and Vietnam and America (with Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin, and Bruce Franklin, 1995), and is the co-editor of Human Rights and Revolutions (with Lynn Hunt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, 2000). Robert Buzzanco is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996), winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, and Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (Blackwell, 1999).

“Overall, this collection will inform and challenge readers, who will discover stimulating perspectives that deliver on Young and Buzzanco’s claims, comprising a welcome addition to the literature.” History: Reviews of New Books"The quality of the essays... make it an easy recommendation to those looking at the war."Journal of American Studies “This terrific collection of twenty-four original articles is as valuable for the teacher as for the student of the Vietnam War. The contributors, who universally rank among the foremost experts on both the War and Southeast Asian history, utilize diverse frameworks and diverse sources to produce diverse perspectives. Young and Buzzanco warrant praise and thanks for assembling a volume sure to become mandatory reading.” Richard Immerman, Temple University “These stimulating essays on both the Southeast Asian and American sides of the war contribute valuable new insights into old debates, such as presidential decisions, and leading-edge investigations into new issues, such as ethnicity, gender, and memory.” David L. Anderson, University of Indianapolis

• About the Contributors viiiIntroduction xi1 Hanoi’s Long Century 1Stein TonnessonPART 1 THE VIETNAMESE IN CONTEXT 172 In Search of Ho Chi Minh 19William Duiker3 Belated Asian Allies: The Technical and Military Contributions of Japanese Deserters (1945-50) 37Christopher E. Goscha4 The Realities and Consequences of War in a Northern Vietnamese Commune 65Shaun Malarney5 The My Tho Grapevine and the Sino-Soviet Split 79David Hunt6 “Vietnam” as a Women’s War 93Karen G. TurnerPART 11 THE AMERICANS  IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONTEXT 1137 Before the War: Legacies from the Early Twentieth Century in United States-Vietnam Relations 115Anne Foster8 Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship, and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering the American Vision of Postcolonial Vietnam 130Mark Bradley9 Dreaming Different Dreams: The United States and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam 146Robert K. Bridham10 JFK and the Myth of Withdrawal 162Edwin E. Moise11 The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam During the Johnson Years 174Robert Buzzanco12 A Casualty of War: The Break in American Relations with Cambodia, 1965 198Kenton Clymer13 The Last Casualty? Richard Nixon and the End of the Vietnam War, 1969-75 229Lloyd Gardner14 Remembering Nixon’s War 260Carolyn Eisenberg15 America’s Secret War in Laos, 1955-75 283Alfred W McCoyPART 111 AMERICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 31516 Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century 317Bruce Franklin17 African Americans and the Vietnam War 333James Westheider18 Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War 348George Mariscal19 “They’ll Forgive You for Anything Except Being Weak”: Gender and US Escalation in Vietnam 1961-65 367Robert Dean20 The Antiwar Movement 384Barbara Tischler21 The Veterans Antiwar Movement in Fact and Memory 403John Prados22 Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam War 416Michael S. Foley23 Knowledge at War: American Social Science and Vietnam 434Michael E. Latham24 The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam 450Chester J Pach, Jr.Select Bibliography 470Compiled by Amy E. BlackwellIndex 491