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The United States and the Vietnam War: a Guide to Materials at the British Library THE BRITISH LIBRARY THE UNITED STATES AND THE VIETNAM WAR: A GUIDE TO MATERIALS AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY by Jean Kemble THE ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES THE UNITED STATES AND THE VIETNAM WAR Introduction Bibliographies, Indexes, and other Reference Aids Background and the Decision to Intervene The Congressional Role The Executive Role General Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Constitutional and International Law The Media Public Opinion Anti-war Protests/Peace Activists Contemporary Analysis Retrospective Analysis Legacy: Domestic Legacy: Foreign Policy Legacy: Cultural Art Film and Television Novels, Short Stories and Drama Poetry Literary Criticism Legacy: Human Vietnamese Refugees and Immigrants POW/MIAs Oral Histories, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters Veterans after the War Introduction It would be difficult to overstate the impact on the United States of the war in Vietnam. Not only did it expose the limits of U.S. military power and destroy the consensus over post-World War II foreign policy, but it acted as a catalyst for enormous social, cultural and political upheavals that still resonate in American society today. This guide is intended as a bibliograhical tool for all those seeking an introduction to the vast literature that has been written on this subject. It covers the reasons behind American intervention in Vietnam, the role of Congress, the Executive and the media, the response of the American public, particularly students, to the escalation of the war, and the war’s legacy upon American politics, culture and foreign policy. It also addresses the experiences of those individuals affected directly by the war: Vietnam veterans and the Indochinese refugees. It does not include works that deal solely with the military aspects of the war, nor does it include periodical or newspaper articles. The shelf-mark for all works is given in parentheses at the end of each citation. Most works are housed at the British Library building at St Pancras, London. A shelf-mark prefaced by ‘DSC’ indicates that the work is held at Boston Spa, but may be read at St Pancras. For works prefaced ‘SPIS’ readers should seek assistance in the Social Policy Information Services reading room at St Pancras. BIBLIOGRAPHIES, INDEXES AND OTHER REFERENCE AIDS BRUNE, Lester H. and Richard Dean Burns. America and the Indochina Wars, 1945- 1990: a Bibliographical Guide. Claremont, Calif.: Regina Books, 1991. (2725.e.1859) BURNS, Richard Dean. The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, 1945-1982: a Bibliographic Guide. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Information Services, 1984. (DSC: 9261.8135 v.18) CAMP, Norman M. Stress, Strain and Vietnam. New York; London: Greenwood, 1988. (2725.e.103) CLARK, Gregory R. Words of the Vietnam War: the Slang, Jargon, Abbreviations, Acronyms, Nomenclature, Nicknames, Pseudonyms, Slogans, Specs, Euphemisms, Double-Talk, Chants and Names and Places of the Era of United States Involvement in Vietnam. Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 1990. (YC.1991.b.1335) CLIFTON, Merritt. Those who were there: Eyewitness Accounts of the War in Southeast Asia, 1956-1975 & Aftermath, an Annotated Bibliography of Books. Paradise, Ca: Dust Books, 1984. (2725.e.198) GILBERT, Marc Jason, ed. The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources. New York; London: Greenwood Press, 1991. (YC.1992.b.5248) KUTLER, Stanley I. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; London: Simon & Schuster, 1996. (YC.1996.b.1649) OLSEN, James, ed. Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. (OIOC: OIJ959.704) ------------ The Vietnam War: a Handbook of the Literature and Research. Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, 1993. (YC.1995.b.15) PEAKE, Louis A. The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975. New York; London: Garland, 1986. (2725.d.532) SUGNET, Christopher L. Vietnam War Bibliography: Selected from Cornell University’s Echols Collection. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1983. (YA.1993.b.12585) SUMMERS, Harry H. Vietnam War Almanac. New York; Oxford: Facts on File, 1985. (YC.1988.b.2623) BACKGROUND AND THE DECISION TO INTERVENE BAIN, Chester Arthur. Vietnam: the Roots of Conflict. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall, [1967]. (X.709/5804) BLUM, Robert M. Drawing the Line: the Origin of American Containment Policy. New York; London: Norton, 1982. (X.520/31544) BODARD, Lucien. The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. (X.639/2065) BOUSCAREN, Anthony Trawick. The Last of the Mandarins: Diem of Vietnam. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1965. (X.709/4479) BROWN, Weldon Amzy. Prelude to Disaster. Port Washington; London: Kennikat Press, 1976. (X.800/26204) CABLE, James. The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. (YC.1986.a.4506) CHARLTON, Michael. Many Reasons Why: the American Involvement in Vietnam. London: Scolar Press, 1978. (X.809/43845) COHEN, Warren I. and Akira Iriye, eds. The Great Powers in East Asia, 1953-1960. New York; Oxford: Columbia University Press, 1990. (YC.1993.b.8302) DEVILLERS, Philippe and Jean Lacoutre. End of a War: Indochina, 1954. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. (X.809/22047) DOYLE, Edward. The Vietnam Experience: Setting the Stage. Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1981. (LB.31.b.2712) DRACHMAN, Edward Ralph. United States Policy toward Vietnam, 1940-1945. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970. (X.809/51919) DRAPER, Theodore. Abuse of Power. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969. (X.708/5209) DUIKER, William J. U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. (DSC: 94/21691) DUNN, Peter M. The First Vietnam War. London: Hurst, 1985. (YH.1989.a.345) DYKES, Hugh. Vietnam: Threat and Involvement. London: Bow Publications, [1966]. (X.709/4126) FALL, Bernard B. Street without Joy: Insurgency in Indochina. New York: Schocken, 1972. (X.709/30962) ------------ The Two Viet-Nams: a Political and Military Analysis. London: Pall Mall Press, 1963. (8184.e.9) GADDIS, John Lewis. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941- 1947. New York; London: Columbia University Press, 1972. (X.800/7614) GARDNER, Lloyd C. Approaching Vietnam: from World War II through Dienbienphu, 1941-1954. New York; London: Norton, 1988. (YH.1988.b.1292) ------------ Vietnam: the Early Decisions. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. (DSC: 98/30482) GURTOV, Melvin. The First Vietnam Crisis: Chinese Communist Strategy and United States Involvement, 1953-1954. New York; London: Columbia University Press, 1967. (Ac.2688.q/10.(9)) HALBERSTAM, Robert. The Making of a Quagmire. London: Bodley Head, 1965. (X.709/2264) HAMMER, Ellen Joy. A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987. (YA.1989.b.3808) ------------ The Struggle for Indochina. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954. (09059.g.12) HESS, Gary R. Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. (YA.1992.b.1222) ------------ The United States: Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power, 1940-1950. New York; Guildford: Columbia University Press, 1987. (YH.1988.b.187) HONEY, Patrick James. Genesis of a Tragedy: the Historical Background to the Vietnam War. London: Ernest Benn, 1968. (X.708/4294) KAHIN, George McTernan. Intervention: How America became Involved in Vietnam. New York: Knopf, 1986. (DSC: 86/13728) KALB, Marvin Leonard and Elie Abel. Roots of Involvement: the US in Asia, 1784- 1971. London: Pall Mall Press, 1971. (X.529/14204) KAPLAN, Lawrence S. Denise Artaud and Mark R. Rubin, eds. Dien Bien Phu and the Crisis of Franco-American Relations, 1954-1955. Wilmington: SR Books, 1990. (DSC: 90/14078) KAUSHIK, Susheela. The Agony of Vietnam: the Origin and Background of American Intervention in Vietnam. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1972. (X.809/16619) KIMBALL, Jeffrey P., ed. To Reason Why: the Debate about the Causes of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War. New York; London: McGraw-Hill, 1990. (YC.1992.b.1067) KOCH, C.J. Highways to a War. London: Heinemann, 1995. (YC.1995.b.4533) MACALISTER, John Thomas. Vietnam: the Origins of Revolution. London: Allen Lane, 1969. (X.809/7529) MANHATTEN, Avro. Vietnam: why did we go? Chino: Chick Publications, 1987. (YA.1990.a.11123) MARR, David G. Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885-1925. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. (X.700/9071) MEHTA, Jaswant Lal. A Political and Cultural History of Viet Nam up to 1954. New Delhi: Venus Publishing House, 1970. (X.809/24670) MENASHE, Louis and Ronald Radosh. Teach-ins: USA Reports, Opinions, Documents. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. (X.709/6242) MILLER, Robert Hopkins. The United States and Vietnam, 1787-1941. Washington: National Defense University Press, 1990. (DSC: GP-US/6211) MORGANTHAU, Hans Joachim. Vietnam and the United States. Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1965. (X.709/7006) NEWMAN, Bernard. Background to Viet-Nam. London: Robert Hale, 1965. (X.709/2215) O’BALLANCE, Edgar. The Indochina War, 1945-1954. London: Faber & Faber, 1964. (X.639/360) O’DANIEL, John Wilson. The Nation that Refused to Starve: the Challenge of the New Vietnam. New York: Coward-McCann, 1960. (8096.c.43) PATTI, Archimedes L.A. Why Viet Nam?: Prelude to America’s Albatross. Berkeley; London: University of California Press, 1980. (X.800/30247) RANDLE, Robert F. Geneva, 1954: the Settlement of the Indochinese War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. (X.800/4079) RICE-MAXIMIN, Edward Francis. Accommodation and Resistance: the French Left, Indochina, and the Cold War, 1944-1954. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986. (DSC: 3461.4605 no.2) ROTTER, Andrew J. The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to South-East Asia. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1987. (YC.1988.b.8989) SCHEER, Robert. How the United States got Involved in Vietnam. Santa Barbara: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1965. (OIOC: ORW.1992.a.1691) SCHLESINGER, Arthur Meier. The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy, 1941-1966. (X.709/4238) SHIRAISHI, Takashi and Motoo Furuta, eds. Indochina in the 1940s and 1950s. Ithaca: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1992.
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