Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam. By Kathryn C. Statler. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xii, 378. $ 45.00 ISBN 0-8131-2440-7.

There I was at 30,000 feet fiat on my back at Mach 2 when suddenly....NOT! Anyone looking for a thrilling story about air exploits had better pass up this volume. Rather, it has to do with the much more prosaic but equally involved political maneuvers that led to the United States' involvement in the Indo China area and, ultimately, into the second Vietnam War. Kathryn Statler, an associate professor of history at the University of San Diego, has written an erudite, ...

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