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...David G. Marr Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam . By Jessica M. Chapman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2013 . xi, 276 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam...

...Robert J. McMahon Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam . By Philip E. Catton . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2002 . x, 298 pp. $34.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1318 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES important...

...Phi-Vân Nguyen Abstract Most studies of the Republic of Vietnam's nation-building programs have focused on its security and land reforms. Yet spirituality was a fundamental element of Ngô Đình Diệm's Personalist Revolution. This article analyzes how the Republic of Vietnam attempted to channel...

...: Harper and Row, 1972. 386 pp. Index, Maps. About halfway through this disingenuous book, General Lansdale remarks that "imaginative journalists have twisted the history of Vietnam" by exaggerating his role in placing Ngo Dinh Diem in power in Saigon in the spring of 1954. "Such stories," Lansdale adds...

... Minh The the Cao Dai swashbuckler and military leader whom CIA agent Edward G. Lansdale touted as a great nationalist hero of South Vietnam is the object of this revisionist analysis of the origins of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. At first covering familiar ground, the study places Diem's rise to power...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 857 political life. Diem accepted the memorandum showdown from France and the United States. (what else could he do?) because he needed A crucial cable from Lansdale to Allen Dul- American support. Lansdale told him that he les (transmitted when Collins...

... revolutionary mobilizations, educators have long needed comparably strong examples to counterbalance the dominant narrative. While the recent rise of a new Vietnam-centric scholarship on the war has been conducive to this task, its focus on the Diệm regime and the Saigon-based government continue to overshadow...

... version of containment. Neither Kennedy nor Johnson, Hatcher argues, had the capacity to "lose small," a valuable quality in a leader (p. 286). In Hatcher's rendering of the Vietnamese side of the conflict, Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem were "contenders for the role of chieftain" of Vietnam's "neotribal...

... mainly to outrage against injustices inflicted on the South by Ngo Dinh Diem's rigid anti-Communism and political ineptness. They recognize Diem's "unexpected initial success in establishing his rule 821 822 J O H N C. D O N N E L L in the South" (p. 99) essentially to police methods and bribery...

... Publishers, 2001. xi, 246 pp. $34.00 (cloth). Trinh Minh The the Cao Dai swashbuckler and military leader whom CIA agent Edward G. Lansdale touted as a great nationalist hero of South Vietnam is the object of this revisionist analysis of the origins of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. At first covering familiar...

..., unless their contributions were meant to be little else dian outright pro domo pleas for President Ngo Dinh Diem and his regime. Indeed, the changes in position and/or viewpoint which most of the authors themselves have undergone since 1959 tell a good part of the story: Michigan State's Viet-Nam...

..., 1963. xii, 274. $5.95. The Last Confucian is the late President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, deposed and murdered in the military coup d'Hat of November 1963. But this book is less about BOOK REVIEWS 483 Diem, although there is much about him in it, than it is about Communist tactics in Vietnam...

...John C. Donnell The War in Vietnam . By Hugh Deane . New York : Monthly Review Press , 1963 . 32 . $0.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 483 Diem, although there is much about him in it, than it is about Communist tactics in Vietnam, Laos...

... characterization of the onset of nationalism, it is perhaps not surprising to see his rehabilitation of Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam, as a shrewd and morally upright politician who abided by the terms of the Geneva agreements and who constituted his regime through a democratic referendum...

... and crisis in the south. The assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963 brought a series of short-lived and increasingly unstable governments as coup followed upon countercoup in the capital. At the same time the forces of the Hanoi-backed National Liberation Front (NLF) further challenged...

... launched a successful coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm and ended the First Republic period (1955–63). The coup leaders were initially successful and organized a government with the support of many of the factions that had previously been advocating for Diệm's removal. Nevertheless, as these alliances...

... of research papers tackles the big issues: the failure of the Eisenhower administration to save France from defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954; the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina; responsibility for the survival of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1955; and the relationship between the Indochina crisis and the collapse...

... history, however, I would recommend reading Logan's and Papin's books alongside this one. GEORGE DUTTON University of California, Los Angeles Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam. By PHILIP E. C A T T O N . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. x, 298 pp. $34.95 (cloth...

... writes, "the United States assumed the stupendous task of not only aiding but in fact creating a sovereign state in South Vietnam" (p. 4). The iron-handed rule of America's chosen instrument, Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem, coupled with the massive infusion of American military and economic assistance...

... of French colonialism? Why did the Communists come to dominate the nationalist movement? Why were the French so slow to face Vietnamese polititcal realities? Or, Why did Ngo Dinh Diem, despite initial successes, prove to be such a failure? Considering his clear value commitments, his active role in some...