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Title: America in Vietnam: A Documentary History by Thomas McCormick, Lloyd C. Gardner, William A. Williams, Walter LaFeber ISBN: 0-393-30555-4 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Complement to the Pentagon Papers
Comment: This collection of documents is especially useful for documents not in the Pentagon Papers, including some amazing ones from the 1950s. It's concise and annotated, emphasizing the origins of the war; half of the documents are dated prior to 1960.

Rating: 1
Summary: Be Wary of this Collection!
Comment: The documents are documents and they speak for themselves. However, the editors are revisionists and their explanation of the documents is very suspect. The editors put this collection together and based their commentary on the idea that United States foreign policy has always been evil, all the "dead white guys" who made these policies are evil, and everything we did during the cold war and Vietnam reflect that evil. I am not saying I agree with the Vietnam War. However, what I am saying is that if you are presenting documents present them fairly and in the proper context. The editors fail to do this. Their commentary reflects what they are trying to push: bad revisionist junk history. For an even handed look at the Vietnam War look at Karnow's Vietnam book. This book is dangerous in that if you don't have a background in the cold war or Vietnam, you might buy into this revisionist junk.

Rating: 4
Summary: Oregon State University's critique
Comment: William Appleman Williams was a prolific and influential writer of a dozen revisionist books that challenged prevailing views of American history, deploring the United States as an imperialist power pressing its economic and ideological will around the globe. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin from 1960 to 1968 and at Oregon State University from 1968 to 1986, when he retired with the title emeritus. The genially combative professor, who termed himself a radical and was often called the founder of the New Left school of American history, was particularly critical of America's role in the Cold War and in Vietnam. With passionate argument and complex analysis, he championed self-determination for all people and argued that a refusal by Americans to acknowledge a national desire for expansion and global hegemony has led to major errors and confusion over the nation's future.

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