TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lawrence,Mark Atwood
TI  - The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era 
T2  - America in the World
SN  - 9780691226552
AV  - D888.U6 
U1  - 327.730172/4 23/eng
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Influence
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Activism
KW  - Adviser
KW  - Allen Dulles
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Amendment
KW  - Anti-Americanism
KW  - Anti-communism
KW  - Appeasement
KW  - Assassination
KW  - Austerity
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Blockade
KW  - Centrism
KW  - Civilian
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Conditionality
KW  - Containment
KW  - Criticism
KW  - De facto
KW  - Dean Acheson
KW  - Dean Rusk
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Defection
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Disgust
KW  - Dividend
KW  - Dixiecrat
KW  - Drought
KW  - Economic warfare
KW  - Embargo
KW  - Embarrassment
KW  - Failed state
KW  - Famine
KW  - Foreign policy
KW  - Formality
KW  - Grievance
KW  - Harris Wofford
KW  - Herman Talmadge
KW  - Honorary degree
KW  - Hostility
KW  - Humiliation
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Insurgency
KW  - Jawaharlal Nehru
KW  - John F. Kennedy
KW  - John Kenneth Galbraith
KW  - Lame duck (politics)
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Left-wing politics
KW  - Lyman Lemnitzer
KW  - Lyndon B. Johnson
KW  - Military dictatorship
KW  - Motion of no confidence
KW  - Narcissism
KW  - Neocolonialism
KW  - Non-Aligned Movement
KW  - Obstacle
KW  - Oppression
KW  - Ostracism
KW  - Perfidy
KW  - Prejudice
KW  - Quantity
KW  - Racism
KW  - Radicalism (historical)
KW  - Rapprochement
KW  - Raw material
KW  - Reformism
KW  - Regime change
KW  - Resource depletion
KW  - Result
KW  - Rhodesia
KW  - Ruler
KW  - Scarcity
KW  - Self-consciousness
KW  - Separatism
KW  - Setback (architecture)
KW  - Shortage
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Slowdown
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Status quo
KW  - Subsidy
KW  - Subversion
KW  - Suharto
KW  - Sukarno
KW  - Task force
KW  - Third World
KW  - To the Contrary
KW  - Trade restriction
KW  - Triumvirate
KW  - U Thant
KW  - United States Department of State
KW  - United States
KW  - Unpopularity
KW  - W. Averell Harriman
KW  - Working group
KW  - Year
KW  - Zambia
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1 The Liberal Inheritance --; 2 A World of Dilemmas --; 3 Lyndon Johnson’s World --; 4 Brazil: The allure of authoritarianism --; 5 India: The partnership that faded --; 6 Iran: A relationship transformed --; 7 Indonesia: Embracing the New Order --; 8 Southern Africa: Settling for the Status Quo --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960sAt the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. With U.S. power, resources, and expertise, almost anything seemed possible in the countries of the Cold War’s “Third World”—developing, postcolonial nations unaligned with the United States or Soviet Union. Yet by the end of the decade, this vision lay in ruins. What happened? In The End of Ambition, Mark Atwood Lawrence offers a groundbreaking new history of America’s most consequential decade. He reveals how the Vietnam War, combined with dizzying social and political changes in the United States, led to a collapse of American liberal ambition in the Third World—and how this transformation was connected to shrinking aspirations back home in America.By the middle and late 1960s, democracy had given way to dictatorship in many Third World countries while poverty and inequality remained pervasive. As America’s costly war in Vietnam dragged on and as the Kennedy years gave way to the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, America became increasingly risk adverse and embraced a new policy of promoting mere stability in the Third World. Paying special attention to the U.S. relationships with Brazil, India, Iran, Indonesia, and southern Africa, The End of Ambition tells the story of this momentous change, and how international and U.S. events intertwined.The result is an original new perspective on a war that continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy today
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