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Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Unmaking of a President
By (Author) Herbert Y. Schandler
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Modern warfare
History of the Americas
973.923
Hardback
440
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
765g
This book examines the events that led up to the day--March 31, 1968--when Lyndon Johnson dramatically renounced any attempt to be reelected president of the United States. It offers one of the best descriptions of U.S. policy surrounding the Tet offensive of that fateful March--a historic turning point in the war in Vietnam that led directly to th