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- catalog abstract ""Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's study provides a much more complex portrait of Diem as both a devout patriot and a failed architect of modernization. In doing so, it sheds new light on a controversial regime.". "Catton treats the Diem government on its own terms rather than as an appendage of American policy. Focusing on the decade from Dien Bien Phu to Diem's assassination in 1963, he examines the Vietnamese leader's nation-building and reform efforts - particularly his Strategic Hamlet Program, which sought to separate guerrilla insurgents from the peasantry and build grassroots support for his regime. Catton's evaluation of the collapse of that program offers fresh insights into both Diem's limitations as a leader and the ideological and organizational weaknesses of his government, while his assessment of the evolution of Washington's relations with Saigon provides new insight into America's growing involvement in the Vietnamese civil war.". "Neither an American puppet, as communist propaganda claimed, nor a backward-looking mandarin, according to Western accounts, Catton's Diem is a tragic figure who finally ran out of time, just a few weeks before JFK's assassination and at a moment when it still seemed possible for America to avoid war."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12671878.
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations Vietnam (Republic)".
- catalog coverage "Vietnam (Republic) Foreign relations United States.".
- catalog coverage "Vietnam (Republic) Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Catton treats the Diem government on its own terms rather than as an appendage of American policy. Focusing on the decade from Dien Bien Phu to Diem's assassination in 1963, he examines the Vietnamese leader's nation-building and reform efforts - particularly his Strategic Hamlet Program, which sought to separate guerrilla insurgents from the peasantry and build grassroots support for his regime. Catton's evaluation of the collapse of that program offers fresh insights into both Diem's limitations as a leader and the ideological and organizational weaknesses of his government, while his assessment of the evolution of Washington's relations with Saigon provides new insight into America's growing involvement in the Vietnamese civil war.".".
- catalog description ""Neither an American puppet, as communist propaganda claimed, nor a backward-looking mandarin, according to Western accounts, Catton's Diem is a tragic figure who finally ran out of time, just a few weeks before JFK's assassination and at a moment when it still seemed possible for America to avoid war."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description ""Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's study provides a much more complex portrait of Diem as both a devout patriot and a failed architect of modernization. In doing so, it sheds new light on a controversial regime.".".
- catalog description "A shotgun wedding -- The Ngos, nationalism, and nation building -- Land reform, land development, and agrovilles -- Origins of the strategic hamlet program -- Photo gallery -- Theory and practice -- Competitive cooperation -- Binh Duong Province : case study of a program in trouble -- The reckoning.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 298 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Diem's final failure.".
- catalog identifier "0700612203 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Diem's final failure.".
- catalog isPartOf "Modern war studies".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "Diem's final failure.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations Vietnam (Republic)".
- catalog spatial "Vietnam (Republic) Foreign relations United States.".
- catalog spatial "Vietnam (Republic) Politics and government.".
- catalog subject "959.704/31 21".
- catalog subject "DS556.9 .C37 2002".
- catalog subject "Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A shotgun wedding -- The Ngos, nationalism, and nation building -- Land reform, land development, and agrovilles -- Origins of the strategic hamlet program -- Photo gallery -- Theory and practice -- Competitive cooperation -- Binh Duong Province : case study of a program in trouble -- The reckoning.".
- catalog title "Diem's final failure : prelude to America's War in Vietnam / Philip E. Catton.".
- catalog type "text".