America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Diem Ngo Dinh America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. Seth Jacobs. Durham: Duke UP, 2004. 381 pp. $22.95.

"Any scholar interested in the origins of America's involvement in Vietnam should warmly welcome Seth Jacobs's America's Miracle Man in Vietnam. Emphasizing the importance of religion and race in explaining why the United States backed Ngo Dinh Diem ...

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