books by Robert Buzzanco (blackwell documents companion)

books by Robert Buzzanco

books:

Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era

3 reviews
Robert Buzzanco

Cambridge University Press, 1997

Finally!
How many Americans know that the most revered leaders of our modern military (among them Ridgway, Eisenhower and Marshall) advised against intervening in Vietnam? How many know that in 1949 the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a policy paper stating that military involvement in Indochina would be "an anti-historical act likely in the long run to create more problems than it solves and cause more ...

Vietnam and America Readings and Documents

pearson custom publishing, 1999

contains various documents regarding the vietnam war

A Companion to the Vietnam War

Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

War, Imperialism & Dissent (Documents on US Foreign Policy), 2005

This book uses the words of those American leaders who were responsible for, or opposed to, the course of US foreign policies over the past few centuries. Collectively, these documents will add another, and vital, layer of understanding to our studies of American foreign policy, to our attempt to understand the reasons behind the wars, terrorism, and globalization that characterize our modern world.

Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (Problems in American History)

4 reviews
Robert Buzzanco

Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Review of Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life
Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life designates the aspects of the Vietnam War as well as the political and social movements of the American people during the 1960's. Dr. Buzzanco's main thesis that he is trying to convey is divided into two parts, the Vietnam War and the issues of the 1960's. His first theme on the Vietnam War subject is the United States after World War II tried ...

A Companion to the Vietnam War (Blackwell Companions to American History)

1 review

Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

An excellent portable seminar on the Vietnam War
This is a first rate collection of definitive, state of the art essays on just about all aspects of the Vietnam War. Buzzanco and Young have put together an outstanding collection of essays on the Vietnam War by an impressive cast of the leading scholars in the field. The war itself may have been created by the "best and the brightest" of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon ...