Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963 Vietnam: America in the War Years

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For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the tragic history of the so-called 'Diem experiment' from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers on the outskirts of Saigon in 1963.