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YOU JUST CAN'T STOP LOOKING ... BARNUM FREAK SHOWS LIVE ON TV OF TODAY.(L.A. Life)
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Byline: David Kronke TV Critic
Freaky stuff: P.T. Barnum made and lost a couple of fortunes - 19th-century dollars that'd still impress as we enter the 21st - peddling the hiccups in mankind's genetic flowchart. His first ventures into the oddities trade were Joice Heth, George Washington's purported 161-year-old nanny (her autopsy revealed she was, to the surprise of few, an 80-year-old fraud) and the Feejee Mermaid, a monkey's head and torso sewn to a fishtail. Later, more sensational attractions like Tom Thumb, the Elastic Man and ladies bearded and fat and tall ...
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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S...government of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. Jacobs argues that this action...commitment to the government of Ngo Dinh Diem and provides a thought-provoking...
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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; ...America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S...Vietnamese President and Chief of State Ngo Dinh Diem. Jacobs asserts that it was the...dependence on existing historiography of Ngo Dinh Diem rather than seeking out a new understanding...
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They shoot allies, don't they? When, 25 years ago, Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated, his supporters blamed the United States. They were right.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...Saigon decision-making. President Ngo Dinh Diem balks. "Vietnam," he informs...anyone familiar with Vietnam. For Diem lived in the shadow of Ho Chi Minh...finally the Americans. His rival, Ngo Dinh Diem, elected the domestic role of a...
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Vision, power and agency: the ascent of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1945-54.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
; Who was Ngo Dinh Diem? In the decades since his 1963 assassination...interpretations of his life and career. That Diem was an important figure in the history...in Vietnam began as a revolt against Diem's South Vietnamese regime--but there...
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America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography
; Diem Ngo Dinh America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem and U.S. Intervention in Southeast...explaining why the United States backed Ngo Dinh Diem in the early 1950s, Jacobs breathes...
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Cold War Mandarin; Ngo Dinh Diem and the origins of America's war in Vietnam, 1950-1963.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9780742544482 Cold War Mandarin; Ngo Dinh Diem and the origins of America's war in Vietnam, 1950...later, military support to Southern Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem, argues Jacobs (history, Boston College), was the...
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Jacobs, Seth: America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books
; Jacobs, Seth America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast...of why the United States supported the leadership of Ngo Dinh Diem from 1955 to 1963. In America's Miracle Man in Vietnam...
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Diem's final failure: prelude to America's war in Vietnam.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
; ...instituted during the reign of Ngo Dinh Diem. From 1954 until 1963, the United States and Ngo Dinh Diem worked to create a non-communist...insight into the leadership of Ngo Dinh Diem. Critics have traditionally faulted...
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The dislodging of Diem
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...of South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was recalled last week when the...The US-backed coup against Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu in November 1963 was a seminal...I was shocked by the death of Ngo Dinh Diem," JFK said just after the killing...
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Ambassadorial roles and foreign policy: Elbridge Durbrow, Frederick Nolting, and the U.S. commitment to Diem's Vietnam, 1957-61. (Articles).
Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
; ...about the ability of the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem to defeat the growing communist insurgency...abandoned Durbrow's tactics, backing Diem unconditionally regardless of the...relationship with the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in the interest of building South...
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