Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Vietnam''s Lost Revolution employs newly-released archival material from Vietnam to examine the rise and fall of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in the First Republic of Vietnam, and in so doing reassesses the origins of the Vietnam War. A cornerstone of Ngô Đình Diệm''s presidency, Civic Action was intended to transform Vietnam into a thriving, modern, independent, noncommunist Southeas...