The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election

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1. Dedication Page No access
2. Table of Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction War and Democracy: The Life-or-Death Bet No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 1: General William Westmoreland: The Tet Offensive No access Pages 19 - 32
Chapter 2: Senator Eugene McCarthy: The College Student Crusade No access Pages 33 - 48
Chapter 3: Lyndon Johnson: "People Grow Tired of Confusion" No access Pages 49 - 64
Chapter 4: Martin Luther King: The Dream No access Pages 65 - 80
Chapter 5: Robert Kennedy: The "National Soul" No access Pages 81 - 98
Chapter 6: Richard Nixon: The Candidate from Squaresville? No access Pages 99 - 114
Chapter 7: Hubert Horatio Humphrey: The Isolation of the Politics of JOY No access Pages 115 - 134
Chapter 8: George Wallace: The Populism of the Vietnam War Era No access Pages 135 - 150
Chapter 9: Nguyen Van Thieu: A Merry-Go-Round in a Chamber of Horrors No access Pages 151 - 166
Conclusion No access Pages 167 - 180
Notes No access Pages 181 - 198
Bibliography No access Pages 199 - 206
Index No access Pages 207 - 216
About the Author No access Pages 217 - 218