Bibliograph

Crooked bamboo, a memoir from inside the Diem regime

Type

Label

Crooked bamboo, a memoir from inside the Diem regime

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crooked bamboo

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Peace and conflict series

Sub title

a memoir from inside the Diem regime

Summary

Crooked Bamboo is a political memoir centered on Nguyen Thai's inside account of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem regime. Thai was a close personal aide for Diem as well as Director General of Vietnam Press, giving him significant access to Diem and other Ngo family members. Although the Diem era is the focus of the memoir, Nguyen Thai's post-1963 career as a government official, businessman, and confidant of several key South Vietnamese figures sheds light on the aftermath of the Diem regime and the dilemmas of South Vietnam's anti-communist elite throughout the Vietnam War. Thai's attempts to help bring the war to a negotiated end and his experiences as one of the first former South Vietnamese officials to return to Communist Vietnam also offer important reflections on the meaning of the war and its aftermath

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Memoir from inside the Diem regime

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