THE YEAR OF THE HARE

by Winters, Francis X

First Edition

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Athens: University of Georgia Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good, with some shelf wear - there is a tear along the upper front corner of the dust jacket. ; Hardcover; 6.50 x 1.00 x 9.75; 292 pages; When the U. S. Government engineered the overthrow of the troublesome South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, it set into motion a tumultuous course of events deepening the Vietnam War. The Year of the Hare asks why President John F. Kennedy decided to depose his ally of nine years, despite almost daily warnings from cabinet officials that the most likely consequence of a coup would be chaos. Why did Kennedy and his colleagues choose this perilous course in the midst of an uncertain civil war? To answer this question, The Year of the Hare takes us inside the Kennedy administration, where the State Department largely supported the coup while the Pentagon and the CIA consistently resisted it. Francis X. Winters' research is based on in-depth interviews with high-ranking members of the Kennedy administration, including Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy and George Ball, along with the newly issued multivolume compilation Foreign Relations and the United STates, 1961-1964, Vietnam, and the recently opened General Records of the U. S. State Department for 1963. .

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