| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2 | The History Cooperative

Edmund F. Wehrle. Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 304. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.
This book fills an important gap in the historical literature, not just in the history of U.S. labor but in an oft-neglected element of Vietnamese history. Edmund F. Wehrle treats readers to a much-needed review of the relationship between labor in the United States and South Vietnam during the war years.	1
The course and aftermath of that tragic conflict witnessed a generational changing of the guard in the academic communities studying Southeast Asia and the American labor movement. Young radicals brought us a withering critique of American foreign and domestic policy, highlighting much that had eluded the Asia hands and labor intellectuals of the early postwar era. But "concerned Asian scholars" and "new labor historians" have their blind spots, too, and Werhle's genuine attempt to understand the motivations of American and South Vietnamese labor leaders helps illuminate some of them.	. . .

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