Book Review #2 My book “No More Vietnams” is an extremely valuable nonfiction text to acquire more knowledge on the Tet Offensive. This book is special because it portrays the history of the Vietnamese War through the eyes of Richard Milhous Nixon. Nixon is the 37th President of the United States who served from 1969 to 1974, the last years of the Vietnam War. During his short lived presidency (he became the only U.S. president to resign the office), he was very active in pulling out American troops from the Vietnam War, hence the title “No More Vietnams”. Nixon is a man that has the ability to write about the Vietnam War through firsthand experiences, one of the two reasons why I choose this book for my research. The other reason why I used …show more content…
The thesis that I took from his writing was that the we entered the war because allowing North Vietnam to obtain a communist victory would lead to massive human suffering for the people of Vietnam, damage American strategic interests and pose a threat to non-communist allies and friends. One interesting topic I learned from Nixon’s book was that he did not want to fully cut all ties with the Vietnam War even though he pushed for the policy to pull out our troops. He still wanted to support the South Vietnamese units because he thought we could still win the war. He then goes on to blame Congress for the loss of the war because they initiated a “total retreat from our commitments to the South Vietnamese people.” The book was great because it provided a lot of factually information through the lens of not just any historian or writer, but through the lens of America’s commander in-chief during the war’s most difficult stage. Nixon was determined to dispel the myths of Vietnam, to show why we failed in Vietnam, and to contribute to the development of policies that will aid future similar events. Although the book was a good read, there are some negatives to Nixon’s writing. In a such a controversial event, there has to be multiple