Choosing War. The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. (Book Reviews).(Review)

From: Michigan Historical Review | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: Nashel, Jonathan | Copyright information

Fredrik Logevall. Choosing War. The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. 529. Bibliography. Index. Cloth, $35.00.

How is history made? From deep, impersonal structures like economic systems and faceless bureaucracies or by people making all-too-human mistakes? Fredrik Logevall clearly favors the latter school of thought, and so in the case of the origins of the Vietnam War, he lays primary blame u...

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