In the United States, the Cold War is often remembered as a two-power struggle. However, increasing globalization during that time meant nations across the world became involved in the conflict. During the Eisenhower administration, American officials struggled to respond to the dual threats of communism and nationalism as decolonization swept through the Third World during the 1950s and changed the nature of the Cold War and U.S. foreign relations with those nations. As the Cold War increasingly became a zero-sum game, the Third World became the primary battleground in the ideological,...

The Vietnam War has been analyzed, dissected, and debated from multiple perspectives for decades, but domestic considerations - such as partisan politics and election-year maneuvering - are often overlooked as determining factors in the evolution and outcome of America's longest war. In "Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War", Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party - its congressional leadership, politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration - on the escalation, prosecution, and resolution of the Vietnam War....

Andrew Johns argues that recent scholars of the Vietnam War have grossly underestimated the importance of partisan politics, election-year maneuvering, and domestic political culture in their understanding of the origins and escalation of America's longest war. In Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Johns evaluates the profound influence of the Republican Party - its congressional leadership, governors, elder statesmen, grass-roots organizations, as well as Richard Nixon's administration - on the prosecution of the war. Beginning his analysis in 1961...