Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam.
New York: Random House, 2012.
Book Information: Publisher; Pulitzer Prize 2013; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.
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Author Information:
- Fredrik Logevall, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
- Fredrik Logevall (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
- Fredrik Logevall, C-SPAN.org.
- Fredrik Logevall. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Fredrik Logevall. The Origins of the Vietnam War. Pearson Education Ltd., 2001. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2014.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, editors. The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall. America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Video: Fredrik Logevall
- I limited this list to videos related to the topics of Embers of War (which focuses on the period 1940 to 1959). Therefore, I excluded videos that are mainly about the U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s and other historical topics.
- Fredrik Logevall, William I. Hitchcock, John Prados, Christian F. Ostermann, "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 05 September 2012.
- Event Information and Video, Wilson Center.
- William Hitchcock, Department of History, University of Virginia.
- William I. Hitchcock (b. 1965), Wikipedia.
- John Prados, johnprados.com.
- John Prados, Wikipedia.
- National Security Archive, George Washington University.
- John Prados. Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Christian F. Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center.
- Christian F. Ostermann, National Security Archive, George Washington University.
- Fredrik Logevall, "Embers of War," Kansas City Public Library, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 06 September 2012.
- Event Information, Kansas City Public Library.
- Fredrik Logevall, "Why Vietnam? Explaining the War," Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin, 18 September 2012.
- Event Information and Video, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
- Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin.
- Fredrik Logevall, "Embers of War: Why Were We in Vietnam?," The Schemel Forum, The University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 27 February 2013.
- The Schemel Forum, The University of Scranton.
- Fredrik Logevall, "What Really Happened in Vietnam: The North, the South, and the American Defeat," Foreign Affairs, November/December 2012.
- Fredrik Logevall, "The Meaning of the Vietnam War," 2013 Olin Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 07 June 2013.
- 2013 Olin Lecture: The Meaning of the Vietnam War, CornellCast.
- Southeast Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University.
- George McTurnan Kahin (1918–2000), Wikipedia.
- George McT. Kahin. Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
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- Fredrik Logevall and Gideon Rose, "The Decline and Fall of Colonial Vietnam," Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 18 December 2013.
- Event Information and Video, Council on Foreign Relations.
- "Fredrik Logevall Wins CFR’s 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award for Embers of War," Council on Foreign Relations, 16 December 2013.
- Gideon Rose, Council on Foreign Relations.
- Gideon Rose (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
- Fredrik Logevall, "History and Policy Makers," Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 21 January 2015.
- The Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University.
- Fredrik Logevall, "The Mystery of the Vietnam War," Department of History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 05 March 2015.
- Department of History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
- Fredrik Logevall, "The Meaning of the Vietnam War," Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 09 November 2017.
- Events at the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, 2017.
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.
- Fredrik Logevall, "Kennedy and What Might Have Been," pages 90-96. In Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2017.
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Wikipedia Articles:
- French Indochina, 1887 – 1954.
- First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
- French colonial empire: Decolonization.
- Role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
- Cold War (1953–1962).
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu, March – May, 1954.
- 1954 Geneva Conference, April – July, 1954.
- War in Vietnam (1954–1959).
- Vietnam War (Second Indochina War), November 1955 – April 1975.
- Graham Greene, The Quiet American, 1955.
- Thomas A. Dooley, Deliver Us From Evil, 1956.
(This Doctor Tom Dooley is not to be confused with Tom Dula (1845–1868), subject of the legend and the later hit song Tom Dooley (1958) by The Kingston Trio; Search YouTube: Tom Dooley. Search YouTube: Dr Tom Dooley.)