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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam , written by Fredrik Logevall

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam , written by Fredrik... (New York: Random House, 2012). xxii + 837 pp. $20.00 (paper), $40.00 (cloth). Fredrik Logevall, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, has written an extraordinary book. A prequel to his earlier Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (2001), which focused on the Lyndon Johnson administration’s decision to Americanize the civil war in Vietnam, Embers of War has won a bevy of awards, including the Francis Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize in History. The book will stand for the next generation as the definitive treatment of how and why the United States supplanted France as the predominant Western power in Southeast Asia. Embers of War defies quick summary because it is a tome steeped in research in British and U.S. archives, careful study of translated Vietnamese sources, and massive reading in American, British, and French secondary literature. Four of the book’s accomplishments should be underscored. First, Logevall offers the best international overview to date of the First Indochina War. In the first quarter of the study, he explores how from the 1910s to the 1940s, Nguyen Ai Quoc, later and better known as Ho Chi http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

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Brill
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© 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Book Reviews
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1058-3947
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1876-5610
DOI
10.1163/18765610-02203007
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(New York: Random House, 2012). xxii + 837 pp. $20.00 (paper), $40.00 (cloth). Fredrik Logevall, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, has written an extraordinary book. A prequel to his earlier Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (2001), which focused on the Lyndon Johnson administration’s decision to Americanize the civil war in Vietnam, Embers of War has won a bevy of awards, including the Francis Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize in History. The book will stand for the next generation as the definitive treatment of how and why the United States supplanted France as the predominant Western power in Southeast Asia. Embers of War defies quick summary because it is a tome steeped in research in British and U.S. archives, careful study of translated Vietnamese sources, and massive reading in American, British, and French secondary literature. Four of the book’s accomplishments should be underscored. First, Logevall offers the best international overview to date of the First Indochina War. In the first quarter of the study, he explores how from the 1910s to the 1940s, Nguyen Ai Quoc, later and better known as Ho Chi

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Published: Oct 14, 2015

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