@article{1479231,
      recid = {1479231},
      author = {Miller, Edward,},
      title = {Misalliance : Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the  Fate of South Vietnam /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been  more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s,  U.S. leaders hailed Diem as "the miracle man of Southeast  Asia" and funneled huge amounts of aid to his South  Vietnamese government. But in 1963 Diem was ousted and  assassinated in a coup endorsed by President John F.  Kennedy. Diem's alliance with Washington has long been seen  as a Cold War relationship gone bad, undone either by  American arrogance or by Diem's stubbornness. In  Misalliance, Edward Miller provides a convincing new  explanation for Diem's downfall and the larger tragedy of  South Vietnam. For Diem and U.S. leaders, Miller argues,  the alliance was more than just a joint effort to contain  communism. It was also a means for each side to pursue its  plans for nation building in South Vietnam. Miller's  definitive portrait of Diem-based on extensive research in  Vietnamese, French, and American archives-demonstrates that  the South Vietnamese leader was neither Washington's pawn  nor a tradition-bound mandarin. Rather, he was a shrewd and  ruthless operator with his own vision for Vietnam's  modernization. In 1963, allied clashes over development and  reform, combined with rising internal resistance to Diem's  nation building programs, fractured the alliance and  changed the course of the Vietnam War. In depicting the  rise and fall of the U.S.-Diem partnership, Misalliance  shows how America's fate in Vietnam was written not only on  the battlefield but also in Washington's dealings with its  Vietnamese allies.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479231},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075320},
}