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Seth Jacobs. America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950–1957. (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 381. $22.95.

Some of us who attended high school in the 1950s may remember a civics class where we were required to read the famous news magazine and take weekly "Time quizzes." I distinctly remember being taught that President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was a stalwart defender of the Free World. The fact that I can recall this heroic portrait of Diem after fifty years have passed probably means that factors unrelated to Henry R. Luce's version of events were at play. As Seth Jacobs shows in this book, both the Eisenhower administration and powerful private interests worked to sell Diem to the American people. Their propaganda sustained American support for Diem until late in 1963, when he was overthrown and murdered.

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