“On September 2, 1945, on a hasrily-erecred pavilion …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“Shortly after declaring Vietnamese …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“President Ho Chi Minh and his chief advisers …”: By permission of Patti Archive University of Central Florida.
“A view of President Ho Chi Minh …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“Ho Chi Minh prior to his departure …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“En route to France to attend …”: By permission of Corbis Sygma.
“In early June 1946, the French representarive …”: By permission of Corbis Sygma.
“During the days leading up to the opening …”: By permission of Corbis Sygma.
“During the summer and fall of 1945 …”: By permission of Patti Archive University of Central Florida.
“After the creation of the Provisional Republic …”: By permission of Patti Archive University of Central Florida.
“Vietminh troops passed under the Long Bien …”: From the collection of the author.
“In the fall of 1950, Vietminh forces …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“After the outbreak of war in December …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“In November 1953, Ho Chi Minh …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“The French fort at Dien Bien Phu …”: By permission of Viernam News Agency.
“After planning their spring 1954 …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“With victory over the French …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“The elaborate Presidential Palace, in a garden …”: By permission of the author.
“In this small stilt house built in the style …”: By permission of the author.
“Ho Chi Minh inspecting one of the …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“Ho Chi Minh presenting his political …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“Although relations between Ho …”: By permission of Viernam News Agency.
“During the 1960s, Ho Chi Minh …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“On the grounds of the Presidential …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“During his last years in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh …”: By permission of the author.
“In the last years of his life, Ho Chi Minh …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“The Ho Chi Minh Trail served as …”: By permission of Vietnam News Agency.
“When U.S. bombing raids approached …”: By permission of the author.
“In 1976, this mausoleum was erected in Ba Dinh …”: By permission of the author.
“In the late 1980s the Ho Chi Minh Museum was built …” By permission of the author.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William J. Duiker is Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He was a member of the History Department at Penn State until his retirement in the spring of 1997. A former foreign service officer with posts in Taiwan and South Vietnam, he specializes in the history of modern Vietnam and China, with a secondary interest in world history. In 1994, he was named Liberal Arts Professor of East Asian Studies at Penn State, and was awarded a Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the spring of 1996.
Professor Duiker has written several books and articles on subjects related to modern China and Vietnam. His The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam (Westview, 1981) received a Choice Outstanding Book Award for 1982–1983, and a second award when it was published in a second edition in 1996. Other books include U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina (Stanford, 1994) and Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam (McGraw-Hill, 1995). In recent years he has developed a strong interest in world history and With colleague Jackson Spielvogel he published a textbook entitled World History (West, 1994).
While at Penn State, he served as chairman of the East Asian Studies Program, as well as director of International Programs in the College of Liberal Arts. He is currently a regular lecturer for the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C., and lives on the Outer Banks in North Carolina.
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Ho Chi Minh / by William Duiker
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ISBN 0-7868-6387-0
1. Há, Châ Minh, 1890-1969. 2. Presidents—Vietnam (Democratic Republic)—Biography. I. Title.
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959.704’092—dc21
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