America's miracle man in Vietnam
Subtitle: Ngo Dinh Diem, religion, race, and U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957
By: Seth Jacobs.
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam (Republic); Vietnam (Republic) -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Colonialism, communism, or Catholicism?" : Mr. Diem goes to Washington; title: "Our system demands the supreme being" : America's third great awakening; title: "These people aren't complicated" : America's "Asia" at midcentury; title: "Christ crucified in Indo-China" : Tom Dooley and the North Vietnamese refugees; title: "The sects and the gangs mean to get rid of the saint" : "Lightning Joe" Collins and the battle for Saigon; title: "This god-fearing anti-communist" : the Vietnam lobby and the selling of Ngo Dinh Diem.