Table of Contents

1: A Dead-End Alley: The United States, France, and the First Indochina War,1950-1954CHAPTER 2: Our Offspring: Nation Building in South Vietnam, 1954-1961CHAPTER 3: Limited Partnership: Kennedy and Diem, 1961-1963CHAPTER 4: Enough, but Not Too Much: Johnson's Decisions for War, 1963-1965CHAPTER 5: On the Tiger's Back: The United States at War, 1965-1967CHAPTER 6: A Very Near Thing: The Tet Offensive and After, 1968CHAPTER 7: A War for Peace: Nixon, Kissinger, and Vietnam, 1969-1973CHAPTER 8: A "Postwar War" and the Legacy of VietnamSuggestions for Additional ReadingIndexMaps

About the Author

George C. Herring is Alumni Professor of history at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia and taught at Ohio University before moving to the University of Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays, including The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers (1983) and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (1994). He served as editor of the scholarly journal Diplomatic History from 1982 to 1986 and was President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1990. In 1991, he served as Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and from 1993 to 1994, he was Visiting Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.