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Title: Nixon's Vietnam War by Jeffrey Kimball ISBN: 0-7006-1190-8 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Balanced if marginal account
Comment: This was an anticipated read. Here for the first time is an account of the Vietnam war fought by the Nixon administration. Nixon began his experience with Vietnam with more then 500,000 men in Vietnam, and he inherited the massive protests from the LBJ administration. Nixon's first reaction, since the Army had crushed the Vietnamese in the aftermath of Tet, was to break the will of the enemy. Nixon's instincts led him into the Christmas bombing in 72, the bombing of Hanoi, the intervention in Cambodia and the mining of Haiphong harbor. All these acts came just short of crippling N. Vietnam. And then, just as the war was about to be won Kissinger signed the Paris accords. Why? Because Nixon had promised 'peace with honor'. Nixon had ended the draft, re-instituted the volunteer army and eventually brought all the Americans back home. But in the end he ensured the end of the freedom of S. Vietnam. This book tries to blacken the Nixon legacy further by showing that he needlessly prolonged the war and that he caused undue destruction of the North.
Yet the book has several gaps. First and foremost it is a political, not a military account, which is unfortunate for anyone interested in the facts on the ground and the truth behind the 'Vietnamization' of the war. So we don't learn much about the competence or abilities of newly trained S. Vietnamese units nor do we learn about the successes of programs like Phoenix. Also missing is the truth behind the fact that the protestors were actually looked to by the North as inspiration to keep fighting. In the end this is a necessary addition to the scholarship on the Nixon period 1968-72, but lacks many points.
Seth J. Frantzman
Rating: 1
Summary: Phony scholarship no sub for the real thing
Comment: I'm writing a review because the rest of these reviews sound like they were all taken from the same dust jacket, which is where reviews like those belong!
The Kimball books all have in common that they are ideologically driven. All Kimball does is arrange the so-called "evidence" --- that is, the out-of context quotes, the out-of-context items and figures and so forth --- to suit a certain viewpoint of the Viet Nam war.
For instance, Kimball goes on at some length in attempts to "prove" the patently ridiculous theory that the relentless opposition to the war on the part of the press and the pro-Hanoi, communist-lead "anti-war" movement did not prolong the war, when in fact as those of us who were there clearly know from direct experience, the anti-war movement and protests enouraged the North Viet Namese.
Kimball's endorsement of and his zany attempts to "prove" that ridiculous theory clearly demonstrate the ideological fantasizing behind this book.
To make a claim to the contrary is just nothing more than ideological blather, wishful thinking on the part of "'60's liberals" who cr@pped on us in the war.
Whether Kimball is one of these or not, he certainly knows his audience and how to play them.
This book is not and will NOT be the last word on Viet Nam. Those of us who lived through it all will see to that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Is Nixion a new particle with negative energy?
Comment: I just wanted to add a 5-star review to help buffer the earlier 2-star rating that said "nixion blows".
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Title: Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald ISBN: 0743200233 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Decline of Popular Politics by Michael E. McGerr ISBN: 0195054245 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The World Within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II by Gerald F. Linderman ISBN: 0674962028 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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