Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The deadly bet

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

56482288

Responsibility statement

Walter LaFeber

Series statement

Vietnam. America in the war years

Sub title

LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election

Table Of 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

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