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The Vietnam Syndrome: Impact on US Foreign Policy 1998th Edition
Author(s): G. Simons (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 27 Oct. 1997
- Edition: 1998th
- Language: English
- Print length: 441 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333711270
- ISBN-13: 9780333711279
Book Description
This book focuses on the ‘Vietnam Syndrome’ – the effects for the United States of the American defeat in the Vietnam War. It argues that a full understanding of the Syndrome requires a proper appreciation of key shaping elements in Vietnamese and American history. Attention is given to the racial genocide that attended the birth of the United States, to US imperialism and capitalism, and to the Cold War framework. The nature of America as a plutocracy is emphasised, followed by profiles of policy options and three specific issues: post-war Vietnam, El Salvador and Iraq.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This is a terrifying book that should be required reading for every student of twentieth-century history. It is written by an author burning with anger at what was done in Vietnam, but the evidence is so clear and the documentation so meticulously marshalled that it cannot be brushed aside as just another example of anti-American paranoia.’ – Tony Benn, MP
About the Author
GEOFF SIMONS
