VLVL 4 The March of Folly (Vietnam)

[Otto]

Another book from the year 1984:

Barbara W. Tuchman:
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984

Die Torheit der Regierenden. Von Troja bis Vietnam
Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989

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Chapter Five
AMERICA BETRAYS HERSELF IN VIETNAM
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This is a very good recapitulation of how the USA got into 
the Vietnam quagmire. 

Back to the novel: I still think it is an interesting theory
interpreting Frenesi as a metaphor for America herself.

Otto