Seth Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 6345549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy
Many of America's most significant political, economic, territorial, and geostrategic accomplishments from 1776 to the present day came about because a U.S. diplomat disobeyed orders. The magnificent terms granted to the infant republic by Britain at the close of the American Revolution, the bloodless acquisition of France's massive Louisiana territory in 1803, the procurement of an even vaster expanse of land from Mexico forty years later, the p…
Feet of Clay
Posterity has been kinder to Maxwell Taylor than to most of “the best and the brightest,” that deliberately ironic term coined by David Halberstam to describe the intellectuals who led the United States into Vietnam in the mid-1960s.1 Whereas policymakers like Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, and Director of Policy Planning Walt Rostow have come in for savage treatment from H.R. McMaster, Aurélie Basha …
Virtual Vietnam: Virtual Vietnam
Those of us who teach the Vietnam War have learned to expect two questions from students on the opening day of class. First, of course, is the “could we have won” question, “we” being the United States and (sometimes) South Vietnam. The second question involves John F. Kennedy. If he had not been assassinated, students ask, would JFK have withdrawn America from Vietnam and averted the most disastrous foreign-policy venture in U.S. history? I answ…
Advocacy Journalism at Its Most Shameless
In 1960, shortly before John F. Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen swept into the White House, the salty nightclub comedian Mort Sahl made an ill-advised bid for movie stardom. Sahl appeared as Corporal Crane in the Korean War drama All the Young Men, which featured Sidney Poitier as a black sergeant in command of a detachment of Marines near the 38th parallel. The film's celebration of how battlefield camaraderie could overcome racial prejudice wa…
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950––1957
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
"Our System Demands the Supreme Being": The U.S. Religious Revival and the "Diem Experiment," 1954-55
In his popular survey of U.S. Cold War foreign policy, H. W. Brands concludes a typically well turned passage on the Eisenhower administration’s “desire, becoming by the mid-1950s almost an obsession, for allies” with the aside: “It was convenient, and not completely coincidental, that three of America’s principal protégées in Asia – Chiang [Kai-shek], [Syngman] Rhee, and South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem – were Christians.”1 This is a provocative in…
"Our System Demands the Supreme Being": The U.S. Religious Revival and the "Diem Experiment," 1954-55
In his popular survey of U.S. Cold War foreign policy, H. W. Brands concludes a typically well turned passage on the Eisenhower administration’s “desire, becoming by the mid-1950s almost an obsession, for allies” with the aside: “It was convenient, and not completely coincidental, that three of America’s principal protégées in Asia – Chiang [Kai-shek], [Syngman] Rhee, and South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem – were Christians.”1 This is a provocative in…
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
Advocacy Journalism at Its Most Shameless
In 1960, shortly before John F. Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen swept into the White House, the salty nightclub comedian Mort Sahl made an ill-advised bid for movie stardom. Sahl appeared as Corporal Crane in the Korean War drama All the Young Men, which featured Sidney Poitier as a black sergeant in command of a detachment of Marines near the 38th parallel. The film's celebration of how battlefield camaraderie could overcome racial prejudice wa…
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950––1957
Virtual Vietnam: Virtual Vietnam
Those of us who teach the Vietnam War have learned to expect two questions from students on the opening day of class. First, of course, is the “could we have won” question, “we” being the United States and (sometimes) South Vietnam. The second question involves John F. Kennedy. If he had not been assassinated, students ask, would JFK have withdrawn America from Vietnam and averted the most disastrous foreign-policy venture in U.S. history? I answ…
Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy
Many of America's most significant political, economic, territorial, and geostrategic accomplishments from 1776 to the present day came about because a U.S. diplomat disobeyed orders. The magnificent terms granted to the infant republic by Britain at the close of the American Revolution, the bloodless acquisition of France's massive Louisiana territory in 1803, the procurement of an even vaster expanse of land from Mexico forty years later, the p…
Feet of Clay
Posterity has been kinder to Maxwell Taylor than to most of “the best and the brightest,” that deliberately ironic term coined by David Halberstam to describe the intellectuals who led the United States into Vietnam in the mid-1960s.1 Whereas policymakers like Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, and Director of Policy Planning Walt Rostow have come in for savage treatment from H.R. McMaster, Aurélie Basha …
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