Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam

by James Hershberg and James G. Hershberg

Book Overview

Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war in 1966. The initiative failed, the war dragged on for another seven years, and this episode sank into history as an unresolved controversy. Antiwar critics claimed President Johnson had bungled (or, worse, deliberately sabotaged) a breakthrough by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804778841
• ISBN13: 9780804778848
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 936 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"