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.
With impressive fluidity... [Eisenberg] weaves together a fine-grained analysis of Nixon and Kissinger's policymaking processes with a multi-layered perspective of the domestic contexts in which they operated. The result is a book that highlights the significant roles of other US policymakers...and the US peace movement in influencing the course of US involvement in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. This is a history that deftly brings together US foreign policy with domestic policy... Eisenberg's book speaks directly to the present in its scathing and impassioned critique of the militarization of US foreign policymaking that has blinded its practitioners from genuine alternatives to violence.
