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The Vietnam War, A Concise International History
Author Mark Attwood Lawrence
Published Oxford University Press 2008
Accessed March and April 2016

The book is written by Mark Atwood Lawrence an Associate Professor of History, Distinguished Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Centre for International Security and Law, and Director of Graduate Studies at the Clements Centre for National Security at The University of Texas at Austin.
The book was draft read and commented on by a number of individuals with particular reference to of New Books who comments on the authors neutral and dispassionate view Lien-hang T. Nguyen was a Vietnamese child who was forced to flee South Vietnam in 1975 with the fall of Saigon. She studied
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The wording of the speech compares to other printings.
The President is asking Congress to give him approval to act to ensure that all nations are governed by the majority, free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of civil liberty and freedom of speech, religion and from political oppression. He wants the US to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities and that people are able to work out their destines.
Bias The President is a politician, reason for speech is US security and access to Europe’s economy
The use of motive language, freedom, endanger peace of the world, exploiting human want and misery, democracy, terror, oppression convince to act.
Origin President Harry S Truman
Limitations Was targeted at Greece and Turkey not the world
Tone Presidential, politician, to raise emotion and fear to get approval to act
Purpose To show that the US wanted democracy in the
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Richard Colley is the originator. He was originally a librarian and researcher and still writes on 20th century wars.
Bias Factual,
Origin History in an Hour, website
Limitations Eventually he lost power, lost credibility
Tone Academic
Purpose To show the impact of McCarthyism in the 1950’s, how he gained power through fear of communism, impact of the

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