Larry Berman, Author . Free Press $27.50 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-84968-3
Henry Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho for brokering the peace treaty that ended American participation in the Vietnam War in January of that year. Le Duc Tho declined the prize. Berman's eye-open
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Larry Berman, Author . Collins/Smithsonian $25.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-088838-1
Historian Berman (Lyndon Johnson's War
) draws on several years of interviews with Pham Xuan An before his death in 2006 for this engaging biography of the Time
reporter who spied for North Vietnam throughout the Vietnam War. Pham Xuan An's
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Larry Berman, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-393-30778-8
Berman discusses the reactions of LBJ and his advisors to the failure of military policy in Vietnam, the manipulation of intelligence from the field to portray success and the widening division between the hawks and the doves. ``The portrait of the...
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Larry Berman, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-393-02636-8
In a previous volume, Planning a Tragedy , Berman focused on President Johnson's 1965 decision to Americanize the war in Vietnam. In this stunning sequel, he reveals how the president and his advisers oversaw the escalation and had to adjust their...
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Larry Berman. Harper, $27.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-169130-0
Berman, professor emeritus at UC-Davis (Lyndon Johnson’s War), addresses one of the Vietnam War’s central figures. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000) commanded Navy forces in Vietnam from 1970 to 1974 and served as the youngest chief of naval...
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