To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary o



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Joseph A. Fry is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His most recent books include Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789-1973 and Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings.



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Introduction
Regionalism, Southerners, and US Foreign Relations, 1789-1973
Southerners and the Vietnam Commitment, 1953-1964
Southerners and the Decision for War, 1965-1966
Southern Soldiers
Southerners and the Debate Over the War's Conduct, 1967
Southerners and the Decisions to Withdraw from Vietnam, 1968-1970
Southern College Students
Southerners and the End of the Vietnam War, 1971-1973

Titel
The American South and the Vietnam War
Untertitel
Belligerence, Protest, and Agony in Dixie
EAN
9780813161082
ISBN
978-0-8131-6108-2
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
15.11.2022
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.74 MB
Anzahl Seiten
482
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch