Vietnam's second front
Subtitle: domestic politics, the Republican Party, and the war
By: Andrew L. Johns
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780813136608
Subjects: Politics and government; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Politics and war; Legislative power; Executive power; History
Notes: Originally published in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Ares, Virginia, and the myth of the water's edge; title: Trapped between Scylla and Charybdis : JFK, the GOP, and domestic politics; title: The Cassandra conundrum : GOP opposition to LBJ's Vietnam policy, 1963-1965; title: Opening Pandora's box : escalation and domestic politics, 1965-1966; title: Confronting the hydra : LBJ on the defensive, 1966-1967; title: Sisyphus and Tantalus : the political impact of the war, 1967-1968; title: The Zalmoxis effect : Vietnam and the 1968 presidential election; title: The Icarus agenda : Vietnamization and its political implications; title: Whither Ariadne? Domestic politics and Nixon's search for peace; title: Conclusion: sowing dragon's teeth; title: Appendix: Republicans, 1961-1973.