| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. By Mark Moyar. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxxii, 512 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86911-9.)

Mark Moyar's revisionist study of the path toward full U.S. deployment in Vietnam—the first of a two-volume history of America's longest war—commands respect for the number and variety of gauntlets it flings. Few tenets of conventional wisdom emerge unchallenged from this book, and several so-called orthodox historians, myself included, take their lumps. Moyar claims that a "reigning ideological orthodoxy" at American universities has led to "defects and gaps in scholarship ... on the Vietnam War" (p. xii). He aims to correct those flaws, drawing on heretofore unavailable sources, many from Communist archives. The result is a massive monograph that makes some valuable points but ultimately fails to persuade.

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