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John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos

By: William J. Rust

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So Much to Lose

John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos

By: William J. Rust

Judith Brockenbrough McGuire's Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War is among the first of such works published after the Civil War. Although it is one of the most-quoted memoirs by a Confederate woman, James I. Robertson's edition is the first to present vital details not given in the original text. His meticulous annotations furnish references for poems and quotations, supply the names of individuals whom McGuire identifies by their initials alone, and provide an in-depth account of McGuire's extraordinary life. Throughout the war years, McGuire made poignant entries in her diary. She wrote incisive commentaries on society, ruminated on past glories, and detailed her hardships. Her entries are a highly personal, highly revealing mixture of family activities; military reports and rumors; conditions behind the battle lines; and her observations on life, faith, and the future. In providing illuminating background and references that significantly enhance the text, Robertson's edition adds considerably to our understanding of this important work.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813144787

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9780813144788

Eisenhower & Cambodia

Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War

By: William J. Rust

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Eisenhower & Cambodia

Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War

By: William J. Rust

This historical study examines America’s Cold War diplomacy and covert operations intended to lure Cambodia from neutrality to alliance. Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, the global ideological struggle with the Soviet Union guaranteed US vigilance throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia’s leader, Norodom Sihanouk, refused to take sides in the Cold War, a policy that disturbed US officials. From 1953 to 1961, his government avoided the political and military crises of neighboring Laos and South Vietnam. However, relations between Cambodia and the United States suffered a blow in 1959 when Sihanouk discovered CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow him. The failed coup only increased Sihanouk’s power and prestige, presenting new foreign policy challenges in the region. In Eisenhower and Cambodia, William J. Rust demonstrates that covert intervention in the political affairs of Cambodia proved to be a counterproductive tactic for advancing the United States’ anticommunist goals. Drawing on recently declassified sources, Rust skillfully traces the impact of “plausible deniability” on the formulation and execution of foreign policy. His meticulous study not only reveals a neglected chapter in Cold War history but also illuminates the intellectual and political origins of US strategy in Vietnam and the often-hidden influence of intelligence operations in foreign affairs.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813167450

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9780813167459

Before the Quagmire

American Intervention in Laos, 1954-1961

By: William J. Rust

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Before the Quagmire

American Intervention in Laos, 1954-1961

By: William J. Rust

In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats posed by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the American engagement in Laos evolved from a small cold war skirmish into a superpower confrontation near the end of President Eisenhower's second term. Ultimately, the American experience in Laos foreshadowed many of the mistakes made by the United States in Vietnam in the 1960s. In Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos, 1954–1961, William J. Rust delves into key policy decisions made in Washington and their implementation in Laos, which became first steps on the path to the wider war in Southeast Asia. Drawing on previously untapped archival sources, Before the Quagmire documents how ineffective and sometimes self-defeating assistance to Laotian anticommunist elites reflected fundamental misunderstandings about the country's politics, history, and culture. The American goal of preventing a communist takeover in Laos was further hindered by divisions among Western allies and U.S. officials themselves, who at one point provided aid to both the Royal Lao Government and to a Laotian general who plotted to overthrow it. Before the Quagmire is a vivid analysis of a critical period of cold war history, filling a gap in our understanding of U.S. policy toward Southeast Asia and America's entry into the Vietnam War.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813135796

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9780813135793

Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood, ...

By: William Finch-Crisp

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Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood, ...

By: William Finch-Crisp

Reproduction of the original: Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood, ... by William Finch-Crisp

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375233519X

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9783752335194

Dapper Dan Flood

The Controversial Life of a Congressional Power Broker

By: William C. Kashatus

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Dapper Dan Flood

The Controversial Life of a Congressional Power Broker

By: William C. Kashatus

Dapper Dan Flood explodes the myths surrounding Pennsylvania's most controversial-and colorful-congressman.

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Penn State Press

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0271036184

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9780271036182

Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis

A Research Agenda for DSM-V

By: John R. Peteet,Francis G. Lu,William E. Narrow

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Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis

A Research Agenda for DSM-V

By: John R. Peteet,Francis G. Lu,William E. Narrow

Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Research Agenda for DSM-V gathers for the first time the collective contributions of the prominent clinicians and researchers who participated in the 2006 Corresponding Committee on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association.

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0890426589

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9780890426586

The Rise and Decline of the American Century

By: William O. Walker III

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The Rise and Decline of the American Century

By: William O. Walker III

In 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation’s leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-II era proponents of the American Century faced a daunting task. Even so, Luce had articulated an animating idea that, as William O. Walker III skillfully shows in The Rise and Decline of the American Century, would guide United States foreign policy through the years of hot and cold war. The American Century was, Walker argues, the counter-balance to defensive war during World War II and the containment of communism during the Cold War. American policymakers pursued an aggressive agenda to extend U.S. influence around the globe through control of economic markets, reliance on nation-building, and, where necessary, provision of arms to allied forces. This positive program for the expansion of American power, Walker deftly demonstrates, came in for widespread criticism by the late 1950s. A changing world, epitomized by the nonaligned movement, challenged U.S. leadership and denigrated the market democracy at the heart of the ideal of the American Century. Walker analyzes the international crises and monetary troubles that further curtailed the reach of the American Century in the early 1960s and brought it to a halt by the end of that decade. By 1968, it seemed that all the United States had to offer to allies and non-hostile nations was convenient military might, nuclear deterrence, and the uncertainty of détente. Once the dust had fallen on Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency and Richard M. Nixon had taken office, what remained was, The Rise and Decline of the American Century shows, an adulterated, strategically-based version of Luce’s American Century.

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1501726153

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So Much to Lose

So Much to Lose

Eisenhower & Cambodia

Eisenhower & Cambodia

Before the Quagmire

Before the Quagmire

Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood, ...

Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood, ...

Dapper Dan Flood

Dapper Dan Flood

Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis

Religious and Spiritual Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis

The Rise and Decline of the American Century

The Rise and Decline of the American Century

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