The deadly bet : LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election / Walter LaFeber.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Vietnam. America in the war years (Unnumbered)
Main Author: LaFeber, Walter
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2005], ©2005.
Series:Vietnam. America in the war years (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > Election > 1968.
Johnson, Lyndon B. > (Lyndon Baines), > 1908-1973.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive
  • Senator Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade
  • Lyndon Johnson : "people grow tired of confusion"
  • Martin Luther King : the dream
  • Robert Kennedy : the "national soul"
  • Richard Nixon : the candidate from Squaresville?
  • Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the politics of joy
  • George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era
  • Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors.