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Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam
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Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam Paperback - 1997

by Gardner, Lloyd C

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  • Title Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam
  • Author Gardner, Lloyd C
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 629
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ivan R. Dee Publisher, Chicago, Illinois
  • Date 1997-09-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1566631750.G
  • ISBN 9781566631754 / 1566631750
  • Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.81 x 5.8 x 1.25 in (22.38 x 14.73 x 3.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Johnson, Lyndon B, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97017237
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

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From the rear cover

Lyndon Johnson brought to the presidency a political outlook nurtured by New Deal liberalism and the idea of government intervention for the public good. In his desire to make that idea work at home and abroad, he contributed to one of the most tragic turning points in American history. As LBJ sought to fulfill John Kennedy's pledge in Southeast Asia, he constructed a fatal coupling of the Great Society and the anti-Communist imperative that had long governed American foreign policy. Pay Any Price is Lloyd Gardner's riveting account of Lyndon Johnson and America's fall into Vietnam; of behind-the-scenes decision-making at the highest levels of government; of miscalculation, blinkered optimism, and moral obtuseness. In a brilliant blending of political biography and diplomatic history, Mr. Gardner has written the first book on American involvement in the Vietnam War to use the full resources and newly declassified documents of the Johnson Library, as well as a wealth of other sources, and to tell the whole story of Johnson and Vietnam.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 01/11/1998, Page 20

About the author

Lloyd C. Gardner is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of more than a dozen books in American diplomatic history, including Spheres of Influence, Approaching Vietnam, A Covenant with Power, and Architects of Illusion.