William Conrad Gibbons

Biographic Data

ID5839285
NAMEWilliam Conrad Gibbons
GIVEN NAMESWilliam Conrad
FAMILY NAMEGibbons
SIGNATUREGIBBONS W C
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
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  • Vietnam

    Larry Berman, Robert A Divine et al.BOOKVietnam1997

    Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had lived. For many Americans, Oliver Stone's film JFK left no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had determined to quit Vietnam. Yet the historical record offers a more complex answer. In this fresh look at the archival evidence, noted scholars take up the ch…

  • The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War

    David M Barrett, William Conrad GibbonsARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships. Part 4: July 1965–January 1968. By William Conrad Gibbons. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xvi, 969 pp. Cloth, $79.50, ISBN 0-691-00636-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-691-00635-0.) Get access David M. Barrett David M. Barrett Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…

  • The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War

    William Conrad GibbonsBOOKU. S. Government and the Vietnam…1995

    This fourth volume of a five-part policy history of the U.S. government and the Vietnam War covers the core period of U.S. involvement, from July 1965, when the decision was made to send large-scale U.S. forces, to the beginning of 1968, just before the Tet offensive and the decision to seek a negotiated settlement. Using a wide variety of archival sources and interviews, the book examines in detail the decisions of the president, relations betwe…

  • The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War

    William Conrad GibbonsBOOKU. S. Government and the Vietnam…1989

    Part III, which begins in January 1965 and ends in January 1967, treats the watershed period of U.S. involvement in the war, from President Johnson's decision to bomb North Vietnam and to send U.S. ground forces into South Vietnam, through the buildup of military forces and political cadres required by the new U.S. role in the war. This volume examines Johnson's policymaking, his interaction with military advisors and with Congressional critics s…

  • The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Part I

    William Conrad GibbonsBOOKU. S. Government and the Vietnam…1986

    This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in the conflict. Part I begins with Truman's decision at the end of World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina, rather than to seek the international trusteeship favored earlier by Roosevelt. It then discusses U.S. support of the French role…

  • The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War

    William Conrad GibbonsBOOKU. S. Government and the Vietnam…1986

    This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in the conflict. Part II covers the period from Kennedy's inauguration through Johnson's first year in office. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of…