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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 A Long Time in the Comin’: American Intellectuals and the Cold War, 1945–1963 9 2 Consensus and Commitment: American Intellectuals and Vietnam, 1954–1963 33 3 The Search for Order: From Diem to Pleiku, November 1963–January 1965 85 4 Skepticism and Dissent: From Rolling Thunder to Tet, February 1965–January 1968 117 5 The Collapse of the Liberal Consensus, 1968 167 6 The Twilight of Liberalism, 1969–1975 204 Notes 237 Bibliography 269 Index 281 About the Author 293 vii ...

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