Vietnam's second front
Subtitle: domestic politics, the Republican Party, and the war
By: Andrew L. Johns
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780813125725
Description: "In Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns examines the relationship between foreign policy and domestic politics during America's longest war, assessing the influence of the Republican Party - including the congressional leadership, state and local politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration - on the escalation, evolution, and resolution of the conflict. This groundbreaking work also sheds new light on the institutional tensions that existed between Congress and the president as they struggled to formulate and implement U.S. foreign policy." "In clear, incisive prose based on virtually unprecedented research in more than eighty congressional and presidential archives, Vietnam's Second Front covers the broad range of the Republican Party's impact on the Vietnam War, offers a compelling reassessment of responsibility for the conflict, and challenges assumptions about the roles of Congress and the president in U.S. foreign relations." --Book Jacket.
Notes: 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.