TY - BOOK AU - LaFeber,Walter TI - The deadly bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election T2 - Vietnam. America in the war years AV - E851 .L33 2005 U1 - 324.973/0923 22 PY - 2005///] CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Johnson, Lyndon B. KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - Election KW - 1968 KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Politics and government KW - 1963-1969 KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-206) and index; General William Westmoreland : the Tet offensive -- Senator Eugene McCarthy : the college student crusade -- Lyndon Johnson : "people grow tired of confusion" -- Martin Luther King : the dream -- Robert Kennedy : the "national soul" -- Richard Nixon : the candidate from Squaresville? -- Hubert Horatio Humphrey : the isolation of the politics of joy -- George Wallace : the populism of the Vietnam war era -- Nguyen Van Thieu : a merry-go-round in a chamber of horrors UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1021919 ER -