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pb |
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9781565842182 |
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New Press |
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1996-09-03 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
One of the finest radical economic historians goes to work on a truly American experience.
"In this detailed and provocative study, Kolko analyzes the U.S.-Vietnamese war on two levels: first, as a protracted collision between two dynamic and changing social systems; and second, as a crisis in the U.S. attempt to extend its social and political order. Viewing the war as a violent social and political process, Kolko examines the several structural forces that shaped the behavior of the Vietnamese Communist revolutionaries, U.S. policymakers, and America's Saigon clients. He sees their conflict as a three-sided struggle, played out within a highly complex international arena and against the unexpected volatility of U.S. domestic politics. This work should stand as the most sophisticated Marxist explication of the war and its significance for some time to come."—Library Journal
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