By Edmund F. Wehrle
"Stunning in its examine and complicated in its research, Between a River and a Mountain is among the top experiences we've of work and the Vietnam War."
--Robert ok. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of heritage and diplomacy, Vassar College
"Skillfully mixing diplomatic and hard work background, Wehrle's publication is a useful contribution to the ever-widening literature at the Vietnam War."
--George Herring, college of Kentucky
"Wehrle has written a compelling and unique examine of the AFL-CIO, the South Vietnamese hard work circulate and the Vietnam War."
--Judith Stein, Professor of historical past, urban university and Graduate college of town collage of latest York
"With this crucial publication, Edmund Wehrle offers us the 1st full-fledged scholarly exam of equipped labor's dating to the Vietnam conflict. according to deep examine in U.S. and overseas information, and provided in transparent and sleek prose, among a River and a Mountain provides greatly to our realizing of the way the AFL-CIO approached the warfare and in flip was once essentially altered through its staunch help for Americanization. neither is it basically an American tale that Wehrle tells, for he additionally provides attention-grabbing details at the Vietnamese Confederation of work and its sometimes-strained family with U.S. labor."
--Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Edmund F. Wehrle is Assistant Professor of historical past, jap Illinois University.
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