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by Michael Lind

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In this highly controversial challenge to the entrenched viewpoints of both the anti-war Left and the pro-war Right, Lind provides "a bold, bracing, and willfully eccentric new entry in the debate about what 'the lessons of Vietnam' should be" (Joseph J. Ellis, "Chicago Tribune").

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Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestseller.

In this groundgreaking reinterpretation of America's most disatrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes enduring myths and put the Vietnam War in its proper context--as part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lind reveals the deep cultural divisions within the United States that made the Cold War consensus so fragile and explains how and why American public support for the war in Indochina declined. Even more stunning is his provacative argument that the United States failed in Vietnam because the military establishment did not adapt to the demands of what before 1968 had been largely a guerrilla war.

In an era when the United States so often finds itself embroiled in prolonged and difficult conflicts, Lind offers a sobering cautionary tale to Ameicans of all political viewpoints.

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In the winter of 1950, Moscow was as cold as hell.

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  • Title Vietnam the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict
  • Author Michael Lind
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Free Press, New York
  • Publication date 2002-07-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780684870274 / 0684870274
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 8.4 x 0.9 in (13.97 x 21.34 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Foreign relations - 1969-1974, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 - United
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99028449
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

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  • New York Times, 08/11/2002, Page 24

About the author

Michael Lind is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine. He is also the author of five previous books, including The Next American Nation and Up from Conservatism. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and other publications. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Texas. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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