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Author: Fredrik Logevall
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.771kg
ISBN: 9780520229198
ISBN 10: 0520229193
Pages: 557
Publication Date: 09 February 2001
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
"""A brilliant book."" - Kai Bird, Washington Post ""Thorough and nuanced, and expressed with admirable clarity. Rarely is diplomatic history so well written these days."" - Jack F. Matlock Jr., New York Times Book Review ""This book is a triumph of research and a narrative of unusual power that relieves the 'diplomatic Vietnam' from the mouldering archives. The result is a eureka of comprehension, a minor miracle of scholarship and argument. Fredrik Logevall has written a great book. Vietnam studies will never be the same. May he win all the prizes."" - Robert Anderson, Philadelphia Inquirer ""The finest history to date of America's decisions to escalate war in Vietnam. More than just a Vietnam book, Choosing War offers a rare and beautifully crafted example of how to study a turning point in history."" - Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs ""Compendious and persuasive."" - Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books ""Stunning in its research and highly sophisticated in its analysis, Choosing War is far and away the best study we have of Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the conflict in Vietnam."" - George C. Herring"""
A brilliant book. - Kai Bird, Washington Post Thorough and nuanced, and expressed with admirable clarity. Rarely is diplomatic history so well written these days. - Jack F. Matlock Jr., New York Times Book Review This book is a triumph of research and a narrative of unusual power that relieves the 'diplomatic Vietnam' from the mouldering archives. The result is a eureka of comprehension, a minor miracle of scholarship and argument. Fredrik Logevall has written a great book. Vietnam studies will never be the same. May he win all the prizes. - Robert Anderson, Philadelphia Inquirer The finest history to date of America's decisions to escalate war in Vietnam. More than just a Vietnam book, Choosing War offers a rare and beautifully crafted example of how to study a turning point in history. - Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs Compendious and persuasive. - Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books Stunning in its research and highly sophisticated in its analysis, Choosing War is far and away the best study we have of Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. - George C. Herring
Author Information
Fredrik Logevall is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
