America Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 - Softcover

Herring, George C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073513253 ISBN 13: 9780073513256

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 2013

Synopsis

Respected for its thorough research, comprehensive coverage, and clear, readable style, America's Longest War explores the origins of the thirty-year war for Vietnam. It seeks to explain how the United States became involved and the consequences of its actions for the Vietnamese as well as Americans. It assesses the multiple legacies of the war and offers guidance for students on what Americans should learn from this national experience that continues to resonate today.

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Title: America's Longest War( The United States and Vietnam 1950-1975) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: GeorgeHerring <>Publisher: McGraw-HillHumanities/SocialSciences/Langua

About the Author:

George C. Herring is Alumni Professor of history at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia and taught at Ohio University before moving to the University of Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays, including The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers (1983) and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (1994). He served as editor of the scholarly journal Diplomatic History from 1982 to 1986 and was President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1990. In 1991, he served as Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and from 1993 to 1994, he was Visiting Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0073513253
• ISBN 13: 9780073513256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 380