Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One A Temporary Expedient -- Ngô Đình Diệm and the Legacy of the First Indochina War -- Kiều Công Cung and the Origins of Civic Action -- Early Assessments -- Two Nationalism and Welfare Improvement in the Republic of Vietnam -- The Roots of a Revolution -- "Raising the People's Intellectual Standards" and "Welfare Improvement"--USOM, Community Development and the CDV -- The CDV, Ngô Đình Diệm and Nation-Building in South Vietnam -- Three Revolution, Community Development and the Construction of Diệm's Vietnam -- Civic Action and the Personalist Revolution -- The Community Development Plan: Phát Triển Cộng Đồng -- Competing Conceptions of Development: Phát Triển Cộng Đồng and the Eisenhower Administration -- Four "Bettering the People's Conditions of Existence"--Kiều Công Cung, the Special Commissariat for Civic Action and the Community Development Plan -- Kiều Công Cung's Community Development Plan -- Apotheosis -- Five Civic Action and Insurgency -- The Roots of the Insurgency -- Civic Action, Community Development and the Burgeoning Insurgency -- Six The Strategic Hamlet Program and Civic Action in Retreat -- The New Line of Action -- The Emergence of the National Liberation Front -- From Civic Action to Strategic Hamlets -- The Kennedy Administration and the Strategic Hamlet Program -- Denouement -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Collections -- Government Publications -- Vietnamese-Language Sources -- Books and Articles -- Theses and Dissertations -- Index