{"product_id":"cold-war-mandarin-seth-jacobs-9780742544475","title":"Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963","description":"For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the tragic history of the so-called \"Diem experiment\" from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers on the outskirts of Saigon in 1963.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seth Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0742544478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780742544475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.30w x 0.81d","brand":"Seth Jacobs","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44321217151231,"sku":"9780742544475","price":129.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f693a08b-12aa-444a-8c1e-4db387bd5a3e.jpg?v=1696329732","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cold-war-mandarin-seth-jacobs-9780742544475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}