The End of Ambition
The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era
$67.22
- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2022
Summary
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s
At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. With U.S. power, resources, and expertise, almost anything seemed possible in the countries of the Cold War’s “Third…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691126401 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691126402 |
| Author: | Mark Atwood Lawrence |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 839g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm |
| Series: | America in the World |
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“Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations”
“Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations”
“The value of this book is its granular dissection of the process through which actual policies are debated and decided on… . More such books are needed to flesh out our understanding of American foreign policy in the second half of the twentieth century.”—David C. Unger, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
About The Author
Mark Atwood Lawrence
Mark Atwood Lawrence teaches history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
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