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America in Vietnam—The circle of deception

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Further reading suggested by the author:

  • The Two Viet-Nams by Bernard B. Fall (New York City: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1964).

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  • Last Reflections on a War by Bernard B. Fall (New York City: Doubleday & Co., 1967).

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  • Vietnam: Between Two Truces by Jean Lacouture (New York City: Random House, 1966).

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Robert Jay Lifton is research professor of psychiatry at Yale. He has spent seven years in the Far East. His interest in the relationship between individual psychology and historical change has resulted in the books,Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China (1961) andDeath in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1968). He is now working on books about the cultural revolution in China and about death imagery and the impact of nuclear weapons.

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Lifton, R.J. America in Vietnam—The circle of deception. Trans-action 5, 10–19 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180463

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