| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War. By Robert K. Brigham. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xx, 215 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-8014-3317-7.)

During the late 1960s, at the height of the domestic debate in the United States over the nature of the Vietnam War, no subject was dearer to the hearts of war critics and peace advocates than the argument that the war in the south was in fact a civil war and that the National Liberation Front (NLF) was essentially an independent rival government fighting for a democratic and neutral South Vietnam against the American-backed government in Saigon. Leaders of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations insisted that the NLF was merely the creature of the Hanoi politburo in its war for control of South Vietnam. Robert K. Brigham's Guerrilla Diplomacy shows, unsurprisingly, that the truth was more complicated than either side believed. Yet his account would most likely prove far more satisfying reading to Dean Rusk and McGeorge Bundy than to Dr. Benjamin Spock or Jane Fonda. . . .

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