America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957.(Book Review) From: Journal of Church and State | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Frankum, Ronald | COPYRIGHT 2005 J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. By Seth Jacobs. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 381 pp. $22.95.

The Vietnam War has been the subject of thousands of books and articles. This rich and growing historiography is noteworthy for its controversy and perspective. What it has lacked in the last two decades, however, is an attempt to understand the South Vietnamese personalities who were at the c...

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