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Review of The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (2022)

February 2, 2022

The End of Ambition : The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era

While most Americans are likely to think of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) in connection with the Vietnam War, Johnson himself wanted to be remembered in terms of his domestic achievements in the form of the Great Society. Lacking in many accounts of LBJ are his policies toward the rest of the world. In The […]

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