5/24/2023 0 Comments Embers of war by fredrik logevallBush’s war in Iraq, by the time Kennedy became president, he was saddled with Truman’s and then Eisenhower’s Vietnam. But much as President Obama inherited George W. Kennedy in 1951, reporting on his return home that France was foolishly trying to cling to an empire even as the people of Vietnam rejected the French-installed Vietnamese puppet government. Terrorism and 9/11: A Reader, 2002, etc.) opens his long, deeply complex narrative with a little-known event: namely, a fact-finding mission to Vietnam on the part of then-Sen. Logevall (International Studies and History/Cornell Univ. Comprehensive history of the early years of what in Vietnam is called “the American War”-the time in which one Western power took the place of another, only for both to be defeated.
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