TY - BOOK AU - Herring,George C. TI - America's longest war: the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 SN - 9780073513256 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - DS558 .H45 2014 PY - 2014///] CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill Education KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - United States KW - Vietnam KW - History KW - 1945-1975 KW - 1945- KW - Foreign relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; A dead-end alley: the United States, France, and the First Indochina War, 1950-1954 -- Our offspring: nation building in South Vietnam, 1954-1961 -- Limited partnership: Kennedy and Diem, 1961-1963 -- Enough, but not too much: Johnson's decisions for war, 1963-1965 -- On the tiger's back: the United States at war, 1965-1967 -- A very near thing: the Tet Offensive and after, 1968 -- A war for peace: Nixon, Kissinger, and Vietnam, 1969-1973 -- The postwar war and the legacies of Vietnam ER -