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The United States and right-wing dictatorships, 1965-1989
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ISBN: 0521678536 0521861330 0511191979 9780511191978 0511190166 9780511190162 9780521861335 9780521678537 0511191693 9780511191695 9780511819971 0511819978 9780511316159 0511316151 1107168120 1280458615 0511190808 051119112X Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Building on Schmitz's earlier work, Thank God They're on our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. During the 1920s American leaders developed a policy of supporting authoritarian regimes because they were seen as stable, anti-communist, and capitalist. After 1965, however, American support for these regimes became a contested issue. The Vietnam War served to undercut the logic and rationale of supporting right-wing dictators. By systematically examining US support for right-wing dictatorships in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and bringing together these disparate episodes, this book examines the persistence of older attitudes, the new debates brought about by the Vietnam War, and the efforts to bring about changes and an end to automatic US support for authoritarian regimes.


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Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War : the end of the American century
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ISBN: 1442262265 1442227109 9781442227101 9781442227095 1442227095 9781442262263 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield,

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President Richard Nixon's first presidential term oversaw the definitive crucible of the Vietnam War. Nixon came into office seeking the kind of decisive victory that had eluded President Johnson, and went about expanding the war, overtly and covertly, in order to uphold a policy of "containment," protect America's credibility, and defy the left's antiwar movement at home. Tactically, politically, Nixon's moves made sense. However, by 1971 the president was forced to significantly de-escalate the American presence and seek a negotiated end to the war, which is now accepted as an American defeat, and a resounding failure of American foreign relations. This book, authored by a foreign relations historian, is intended to provide an up-to-date analysis of Nixon's Vietnam policy in a concise and accessible way. The author addresses the main controversies of Nixon's Vietnam strategy, and in so doing manages to trace back the ways in which this most calculating and perceptive politician wound up resigning from office a fraud and failure. Finally, the book seeks to place the impact of Nixon's policies and decisions in the larger context of post-World War II American society, and analyzes the full costs of the Vietnam War that the nation feels to this day. -- From publisher's website.

The United States and fascist Italy, 1922-1940
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ISBN: 080781766X Year: 1988 Publisher: Chapel Hill London

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Thank God they're on our side: the United States and right-wing dictatorships, 1921-1965
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ISBN: 0807847739 Year: 1999 Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press

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The Triumph of Internationalism : Franklin D. Roosevelt and a World in Crisis, 1933û1941
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ISBN: 1612343139 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Baltimore, Md. : Potomac Books, Project MUSE,

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A concise history of American foreign policy from the Great Depression to the eve of World War II


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The sailor
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ISBN: 0813180473 0813180457 9780813180441 0813180449 9780813180458 0813180465 9780813180465 0813180449 Year: 2021 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky

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Brent Scowcroft
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ISBN: 1282991809 9786612991806 0742570428 9780742570429 9780742570405 0742570401 9781282991804 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield

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The United States and right-wing dictatorships, 1965-1989
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ISBN: 9780511819971 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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