Fire and Rain
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 February 2023
- ISBN 9780197639061
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages632 pages
- Size 235x168x50 mm
- Weight 975 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 black and white illustration 287
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Short description:
Offering a fresh perspective on the American war in Southeast Asia and superpower diplomacy during the Nixon-Kissinger years, this gripping work drawing on thousands of declassified documents and tapes to provide a startling account of the mpact of high-level decisions in Washington on people in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the United States.
MoreLong description:
This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad. By drawing these connections, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg brings to life policy decisions about Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, conveying their significance to a new generation of readers. She breaks fresh ground in contextualizing Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's decisions within a wider institutional and societal framework. While recognizing the distinctive personalities and ideas of these two men, this study more broadly conveys the competing roles and impact of the professional military, the Congress, and a mobilized peace movement.
Drawing upon a vast collection of declassified documents, Eisenberg presents an important re-interpretation of the Nixon Administration's relations with the Soviet Union and China vis a vis the war in Southeast Asia. She argues that in their desperate effort to overcome, or at least overshadow, their failure in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger made major concessions to both nations in the field of arms control, their response to the India-Pakistan war, and the diplomacy surrounding Taiwan--much of this secret. Despite policymakers' claims that the Vietnam War was a "national security" necessity that would demonstrate American strength to the communist superpowers and "credibility" to friendly governments, the historical record suggests a different reality.
A half-century after the Paris Peace Conference marking the withdrawal of US troops and advisors from Vietnam and foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia, Fire and Rain is a dramatic account of geopolitical decision making, civil society, and the human toll of the war on the people of Southeast Asia.
With over 30,000 books published on the Vietnam War, does it make sense to write another book about the conflict waged by the United States in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam between 1957 and 1973? Reading Fire and Rain, the answer is affirmative for several reasons.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "This is Not Frivolous, Mr. Chairman!"
Part I: The War
Chapter 1:"Mired in Stalemate"
Chapter 2:"We Will Hit Them without Warning"
Chapter 3:"I See Death Coming Up the Hill"
Chapter 4:"It Makes Our Position Murder"
Chapter 5:"Blow Their Candles Out"
Chapter 6:"You Shouldn't Kill That Many"
Chapter 7:"The Idealists Are the Builders"
Chapter 8:"Hit 'Em in the Gut"
Chapter 9:"The Great Mystery of Life"
Chapter 10:"The Greatest Success"
Chapter 11:"Enjoy the Breeze"
Chapter 12:"We Might Have Burned Your House"
Chapter 13:"Something Like a Moron"
Chapter 14:"Take A Stinking Hill"
Chapter 15:"Everyone Was Crying"
Chapter 16:"Bring Our Brothers Home"
Part II: War and Diplomacy
Chapter 17:"You've Only Got One Card"
Chapter 18:"Man of Peace"
Chapter 19:"Knock the Shit Out of Them"
Chapter 20:"Seize the Hour! Seize the Day"
Chapter 21:"The Whole Ground Shakes"
Chapter 22:"Let Us Think of Tanya"
Chapter 23:"Four More Years"
Chapter 24:"You're Three for Three, Mr. President"
Chapter 25:"Miserable, Filthy People"
Chapter 26:"A Terrific Let-down"
Chapter 27:"Let the Americans See Me"
Epilogue:"We Were Serious People!"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
