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-
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
Descript	x, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

"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

SUBJECT

United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam (Republic)
Vietnam (Republic) -- Foreign relations -- United States
Ngô
Đình Dịêm
1901-1963
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961

LOCATION	CALL#	STATUS
Arts Library	E183.8.V5 J17A 2004	CHECK SHELVES