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America's miracle man in Vietnam : Ngo Dinh Diem, religion, race, and U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957
- Title
- America's miracle man in Vietnam : Ngo Dinh Diem, religion, race, and U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 / Seth Jacobs.
- Author
- Jacobs, Seth, 1964-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- x, 381 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- American encounters/global interactions
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Colonialism, communism, or Catholicism?" : Mr. Diem goes to Washington -- "Our system demands the supreme being" : America's third great awakening -- "These people aren't complicated" : America's "Asia" at midcentury -- "Christ crucified in Indo-China" : Tom Dooley and the North Vietnamese refugees -- "The sects and the gangs mean to get rid of the saint" : "Lightning Joe" Collins and the battle for Saigon -- "This god-fearing anti-communist" : the Vietnam lobby and the selling of Ngo Dinh Diem.
- Call Number
- ICM (Vietnam) 05-2152
- ISBN
- 0822334291 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822334402 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004012452
- OCLC
- 55534905
- Author
- Jacobs, Seth, 1964-
- Title
- America's miracle man in Vietnam : Ngo Dinh Diem, religion, race, and U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 / Seth Jacobs.
- Imprint
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Series
- American encounters/global interactions
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- ICM (Vietnam) 05-2152