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Baritz, Loren. Backfire: How American Culture Led Us into the Vietnam War and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. New York: Morrow, 1985.
Bergureud, Eric. The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
Berman, Larry. Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.
Berman, Larry. Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.
Berman, Larry. No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Blaufarb, Douglas. The Counterinsurgency Era: U. S. Doctrine and Performance. New York: Free Press, 1977.
Blum, John M.Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1974. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
Bradley, Mark P.Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Brigham, Robert. Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Brown, William A. Jr., and Redvers, Opie. American Foreign Assistance. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1953.
Burdick, Eugene, and William, J. Lederer. The Ugly American. New York: W. W. Norton, 1958.
Buzzanco, Robert. Masters of War: Military Dissent & Politics in the Vietnam Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Buzzanco, Robert. Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.
Cable, Larry. Unholy Grail: The U. S. and the Wars in Vietnam, 1965–8. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Catton, Philip E. “Counter-Insurgency and Nation Building: The Strategic Hamlet Programme in South Vietnam, 1961–1963.” International History Review 21 (December 1999): 918–40.
Catton, Philip E.. Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Chomsky, Noam. Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture. Boston: South End Press, 1993.
Chomsky, Noam, Katznelson, Ira R. C.Lewontin, David Montgomery, Nader, Laura, Ohmann, Richard, Siever, Ray, Wallerstein, Immanuel, and Zinn, Howard. The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years. New York: New Press, 1996.
Cooper, Chester. The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970.
Cullather, Nick. “Development? Its History.” Diplomatic History 24 (Fall 2000): 641–53.
Dacy, Douglas C.Foreign Aid, War, and Economic Development: South Vietnam, 1955–1975. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Dallek, Robert. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Diamond, Sigmund. Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945–1955. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Dieu, Nguyen Thi. The Mekong River and the Struggle for Indochina: Water, War, and Peace. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
Donald, Aïda D., ed. John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966.
Draper, Theodore. Abuse of Power. New York: Viking Press, 1966.
Duiker, William J.Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
Duiker, William J.. The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam. 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Duiker, William J.. Ho Chi Minh: A Life. New York: Hyperion, 2000.
Dunn, Carroll H.Base Development in South Vietnam, 1965–1970. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1972.
Eisenstadt, S. N. “Sociological Aspects of Political Development in Underdeveloped Countries.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 5, no. 4 (1957): 289–98.
Elliott, David W. P.The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930–1975. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2002.
Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Viking/Penguin, 2002.
Engerman, David C., Gilman, Nils, Mark, H. Haefele, and Michael, E. Latham. Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
Ernst, John. Forging a Fateful Alliance: Michigan State University and the Vietnam War. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.
Escobar, Arturo. “Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the Third World.” Cultural Anthropology 3, no. 4 (1988): 428–43.
Escobar, Arturo. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Fall, Bernard B.The Two Viet-Nams: A Political and Military Analysis. Rev. ed. New York: Praeger, 1964.
Fall, Bernard B.. Viet-Nam Witness, 1953–1966. New York: Praeger, 1966.
Fall, Bernard B.. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1967.
Fitzgerald, Francis. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.
Fulbright, J. William. The Arrogance of Power. New York: Random House, 1966.
Gardner, Lloyd C.Approaching Vietnam: From World War II through Dienbienphu. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.
Gardner, Lloyd C.. Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995.
Gendzier, Irene. Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985.
Giglio, James N.The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
Gilman, Nils. The Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Goodman, Allan E.The Causes and Consequences of Migration to Saigon, Vietnam. New York: Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group, 1973.
Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. New York: Viking Press, 1955.
Halberstam, David. Ho. New York: Vintage Books, 1971.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1972.
Halberstam, David. The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era. Rev. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.
Hammer, Ellen. A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987.
Hendry, James B. “American Aid in Vietnam: The View from a Village.” Pacific Affairs 33 (December 1960): 389–90.
Hendry, James B.. “Land Tenure in South Viet Nam.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 9 (October 1960): 27–44.
Hendry, James B.. The Small World of Khanh Hau. Chicago: Aldine, 1964.
Herring, George C. “‘Peoples Quite Apart’: Americans, South Vietnamese, and the War in Vietnam.” Diplomatic History 14 (Winter 1990): 1–23.
Herring, George C.. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Hersh, Seymour M.The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. New York: Summit Books, 1983.
Hess, Gary R. “The Unending Debate: Historians and the Vietnam War.” Diplomatic History 18 (Spring 1994): 239–64.
Hickey, Gerald C.Village in Vietnam. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1964.
Hilsman, Roger. To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy. New York: Doubleday, 1967.
Hogan, Michael J.America in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Hunt, Richard A.Pacification: The American Struggle for Vietnam's Hearts and Minds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Immerman, Richard H. “Confessions of an Eisenhower Revisionist: An Agonizing Reappraisal.” Diplomatic History 14 (Summer 1990): 319–42.
Immerman, Richard H., ed. John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Immerman, Richard, and Fred, L. Greestein. “What Did Eisenhower Tell Kennedy about Indochina? The Politics of Misperception.” Journal of American History 79 (September 1992): 568–87.
Jacobs, Seth. “‘Our System Demands the Supreme Being’: The U.S. Religious Revival and the ‘Diem Experiment,’ 1954–1955.” Diplomatic History 25 (Fall 2001): 589–624.
Jamieson, Neil L.Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Jian, Chen. Mao's China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Johnson, Lyndon Baines. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
Johnson, Robert David. “The Origins of Dissent: Senate Liberals and Vietnam, 1959–1964.” Pacific Historical Review 65, no. 2 (1996): 249–74.
Kahin, George M.Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam. New York: Anchor Books, 1987.
Kahin, George M.. Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia. New York: New Press, 1995.
Kahin, George M., and John, W. Lewis. The United States in Vietnam. New York: Delta Press, 1969.
Kaiser, David. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Kennedy, John F. “A Democrat Looks at Foreign Policy.” Foreign Affairs 36, no. 1 (1957): 44–59.
Kimball, Jeffrey. Nixon's Vietnam War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Kolko, Gabriel. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience. New York: New Press, 1985.
Lacouture, Jean. Ho Chi Minh: A Political Biography. New York: Vintage Books, 1968.
LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–2000. 9th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Lansdale, Edward G.In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia. New York: Fordham University Press, 1991.
Latham, Michael E. “Ideology, Social Science, and Destiny: Modernization and the Kennedy Era Alliance for Progress.” Diplomatic History 22 (Spring 1998): 199–229.
Latham, Michael E.. Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in the Kennedy Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Leffler, Melvyn P.A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992.
Lerner, Daniel. The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East. London: Free Press of Glencoe, 1958.
Lewy, Guenter. American in Vietnam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Logevall, Fredrik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Long, Ngô Viñh. Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants under the French. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.
Lummis, C. Douglas. Radical Democracy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Marquis, Jefferson P. “The Other Warriors: American Social Science and Nation Building in Vietnam.” Diplomatic History 24 (Winter 2000): 79–104.
Marr, David G.Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Marr, David G.. Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.
Matusow, Allen J.The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
McCormick, Thomas J.America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
McHale, Shawn F.Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
McMahon, Robert J. “Eisenhower and Third World Nationalism: A Critique of the Revisionists.” Political Science Quarterly 101 (1986): 453–73.
McMahon, Robert J.. The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Montgomery, John D.The Politics of Foreign Aid: American Experience in Southeast Asia. New York: Praeger, 1962.
Morely, Morris H.Imperial State and Revolution: The United States and Cuba, 1952–1986. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Morgan, Joseph. The Vietnam Lobby: The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955–1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Murray, Martin J.The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina, 1870–1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Olson, Gregory A.Mansfield and Vietnam: A Study in Rhetorical Adaptation. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995.
Osanka, Franklin M., ed. Modern Guerrilla Warfare: Fighting Communist Guerrilla Movements, 1941–1961. New York: Free Press, 1962.
Palmer, Bruce. The Twenty-five Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
Parsons, Talcott, and Shils, Edward. Toward a General Theory of Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951.
Paterson, Thomas G.On Every Front: The Making of the Cold War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Paterson, Thomas G., ed. Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961–1963. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Paterson, Thomas G.. Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Patterson, James T.Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Patti, Archimedes. Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America's Albatross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Peet, Richard. Theories of Development. With Elaine Hartwick. New York: Guilford Press, 1999.
Perez, Louis A.Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Popkin, Samuel L.The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
Prados, John. The Hidden History of the Vietnam War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995.
Prados, John. The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War. New York: John Wiley, 1999.
Rabe, Stephen. Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anti-Communism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Rabe, Stephen. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Race, Jeffrey. War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
Reeves, Richard. President Kennedy: Profile of Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Robequain, Charles. The Economic Development of French Indochina. London: Oxford University Press, 1944.
Rosenstein-Rodan, P. N. “The International Development of Economically Backward Areas.” International Affairs 20, no. 2 (1944): 157–65.
Rostow, Walt W.The Process of Economic Growth. New York: W. W. Norton, 1952.
Rostow, Walt W.. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-communist Manifesto. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1960.
Rostow, Walt W.. Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Foreign Aid. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.
Rostow, Walt W., and Millikan, Max. A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
Rotter, Andrew J.The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
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Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Schmitz, David. Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States & Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Schraeder, Peter J., ed. Intervention into the 1990s: U. S. Foreign Policy in the Third World. 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1992.
Schulzinger, Robert D.A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941–1975. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Scigliano, Robert. “Political Parties in South Vietnam under the Republic.” Pacific Affairs 33 (December 1960): 327–47.
Scigliano, Robert. South Vietnam: Nation under Stress. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.
Scigliano, Robert, and Fox, Guy. Technical Assistance in Vietnam: The Michigan State University Experience. New York: Praeger, 1965.
Scott, James C.The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977.
Scott, James C.. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Conditions Have Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Sears, Dudley. “The Birth, Life and Death of Development Economics.” Development and Change 10 (1979): 707–19.
Shaplen, Robert. The Lost Revolution: The Story of Twenty Years of Neglected Opportunities in Vietnam and of America's Failure to Foster Democracy There. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1988.
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Small, Melvin. Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
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Spector, Ronald. Advice and Support: The Early Years – The U.S. Army in Vietnam. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1983.
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Summers, Harry G.On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982.
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