Nothing Is Impossible : America's Reconciliation with Vietnam Hardback
by Ted Osius
Hardback
Description
Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors.
How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible.
He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:356 pages, 40 color images
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:15/10/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781978825161
£27.99
£24.69
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:356 pages, 40 color images
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:15/10/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781978825161