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At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War.

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War.(Book review)

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At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War by Melvin Small. Chicago, IL, Ivan R. Dee Publishers, 2005. 256 pp. $26.00.

Melvin Small sets out to explore the rather unremarkable point that domestic politics affect foreign policies, and contends that this has not been adequately examined in the Vietnam era. Studies of Lyndon Johnson's political agenda, especially the impact of Vietnam on the Great Society, and of the media and the antiwar media abound, however, so Small's book is simply another--and not unique--addition to a topic that has been well covered. And his finding that the various presidents in the Vietnam era--John Kennedy, Johnson, and Richard Nixon--made decisions with domestic politics in mind is nothing new either. This book, then, is simply another pedestrian effort to tell an already well-known story....

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