@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674075320,
      recid = {1404009},
      author = {Miller, Edward Garvey.},
      title = {Misalliance Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the fate  of South Vietnam / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674075320},
      pages = {1 online resource (419 p.) :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"As leader of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963, Ngo Dinh  Diem was hailed by some as a "miracle man" who had saved  his country from communism. Others denounced him as a U.S.  puppet or as a reactionary mandarin. In Misalliance, Edward  Miller refutes these simplistic caricatures and presents a  new interpretation of Diem and the rise and fall of his  alliance with the United States. Drawing on American,  French, and Vietnamese archival sources, Miller shows how  Diem engineered his own rise to power and outmaneuvered his  rivals in Saigon during the mid-1950s. He then embarked on  an ambitious program of nation building that was based not  on the advice offered by his U.S. advisors, but on his own  vision of Vietnam's modernization. Overturning the  conventional wisdom about Diem, Miller shows that he was a  man with a plan--a plan that turned out to be deeply  flawed, with disastrous consequences for both Vietnam and  the United States"--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1404009},
}