The Limits of Intervention
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Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1970).
For this new paperback edition, Mr. Hoopes has written a supplemental chapter interpreting the final event of 1973-75 and assessing with masterful clarity the whole period of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1945 to 1975.
- Publisher
- Longman Publishing Group
- ISBN-13
- 9780393304275
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- Topics
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1970)
Other awarded books from Townsend Hoopes
- The Devil and John Foster Dulles (1997)1 win · 12 score
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