About the Author

EDWIN A. MARTINI is assistant professor of history at Western Michigan University.

Reviews

"Original, lucid, and convincing--a powerful indictment of the vindictive postwar policies the United States leveled against the one nation that successfully resisted the heaviest bombing in world history."--Christian G. Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides "There are not a lot of books that cover this subject, and none cover it so comprehensively. It is enormously valuable to have in one place a treatment of high-level political debates over diplomatic recognition and popular perceptions of Vietnam as rendered by Hollywood."--Andrew J. Rotter, author of The Path to Vietnam: The Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia "Martini should be commended for adding significantly to our understanding of the war after the war. . . . This is a first-rate book and a must reading for anyone interested in recent U.S. foreign policy."--Robert K. Brigham, Vassar College, H-Diplo Reviews "Teachers of courses on the Vietnam War will find Invisible Enemies a useful source for bringing their class to the end of the twentieth century. Scholars of American foreign relations will appreciate a fresh and engaging approach to a topic that is sorely in need of historical study."--Matthew Masur, St. Anselm College, H-Diplo Reviews "Invisible Enemies is an original and welcome addition to the existing literature on the Vietnam War. IN addition to providing a critique of American policy toward Vietnam after 1975, a period generally ignored by students of the war, Martini effectively combines the fields of diplomatic history and cultural studies. . . . [Invisible Enemies] is a work of scholarship that truly does transcend narrow disciplinary boundaries."--James McAllister, Williams College, H-Diplo Reviews "In this well-written, excellently researched work, Edwin Martini argues that the American conflict with Vietnam did not end in 1975. Instead, he maintains that the U.S. launched a diabolical war by other means on communist Vietnam by imposing a ruinous economic and diplomatic embargo that persisted into the 1990s and only ended with the establishment of a Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2000."--The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "Examines American postwar hostility to Vietnam as reflected in economic sanctions, foreign policy, popular culture and other realms."--The Chronicle of Higher Education "The real strength of this book is the way Martini weaves together the economic, political, and cultural threads of the period of the postwar war. . . . This is a well-documented book with value for advanced scholars yet written in a manner accessible to undergraduates"--The American Historical Review "Martini's courageous book helps us to appreciate this irony, that diplomatic relations became possible only when reparations had been paid--by the Vietnamese to the United States."--Peace & Change