Lyndon Johnson's War

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise affordable works on pivotal topics in American history society and politics.Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives Michael H. Hunt''s Lyndon Johnson''s War reinterprets the values choices misconceptions and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia and renders more comprehensible--if no less troubling--the tangled origins of the war.