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Knopf, 1986), p. 44.
4 The Pentagon Papers, p. 634.
5 The Pentagon Papers p. 634.
6 The Pentagon Papers, p. 634.
7 Gettleman, et al., Vietnam and America: A Documented History, p. 83.
8 Sheehan, Neil, A Bright Shining Lie—John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), pp. 142.
9 Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 144.
10 An early and ultimately prophetic analysis of Diem’s bizarre personality, family influence, undemocratic style of government, and self-defeating military policies was made by Stanley Karnow in The Reporter (Jan. 19, 1961), reprinted as “Diem Defeats His Own Best Troops,” in: Sheehan, Neil, et. al, Reporting Vietnam, vol. 1, Library of America, 1998, pp. 3-17.
11 Herring, America’s Longest War, p. 51.
12 Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, pp. 137-138.
13 Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 139.
14 FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake, p. 80.
15 Schulzinger, Robert D., A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 86; Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 141.
16 Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 139.
17 Herring, America’s Longest War, p. 76; Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, pp. 139; 182-183.
18 Schulzinger, A Time for War, p. 99; FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake, p. 78; Herring, America’s Longest War, p. 76.
19 FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake, p. 78.
20 Halberstam, David, The Best and the Brightest (1969; New York: Ballantine, 1992). p. 172. For General Taylor’s report, see Document No. 27, “Taylor’s Summary of Findings on his Mission to South Vietnam,” and Document No.28, “Evaluations and Conclusions of Taylor’s Report on Vietnam,” Pentagon Papers, pp. 144-148.
21 Schulzinger, A Time for War, pp. 107-111.
22 Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 138.
23 Greene, The Quiet American (1955; Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1962), p. 34. Further page references to this edition of the novel will be given within parentheses.
24 John Clark Pratt pinpoints the novel’s time frame more precisely, as the six months from September 1951 to February-March 1952. See Pratt, “Introduction” to the Viking Critical Edition of The Quiet American (New York: Penguin, 1996), p. xii.
25 Kahin, George M., and John W. Lewis, The United States in Vietnam (New York: Dial Press, 1967), p. 32.
26 Currey, Charles, Edward Landsdale: The Unquiet American (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
27 Gaspar, Charles J., “Edward Landsdale,” in: The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, ed. Spencer Tucker (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 153.
28 Qtd. in Pratt, the Viking Critical Edition, p. 481.
29 Qtd. in Pratt, the Viking Critical Edition, p. 321.
30 Pratt, John Clark, “From the Fiction, Some Truths,” a Bibliographic Commentary, in: Lomperis, Timothy J., “Reading the Wind” The Literature of the Vietnam War: An Interpretative Critique (Durham: Duke University Press, 1987), p. 126.
31 Pratt, “Introduction” to the Viking Critical Edition, p. xv.
32 See Christopher Robbins, New York Times Book Review (June 18, 1989), p. 36, for Greene’s denials.
33 Pratt, “Introduction” to the Viking Critical Edition, p. xv, emphasis in the original.
34 Pratt, “Introduction” to the Viking Critical Edition, p. xv.
35 Nashel, Jonathan, “Edward Landsdale and the American Attempt to Remake Southeast Asia, 1945-1965,” Ph.D dissertation, Rutgers University, 1994, qtd. in Pratt, Viking Critical Edition, p. 313. Nashel thinks that Landsdale was the prototype of another controversial American military legend, Lt. Col. Oliver North of the Iran hostage crisis.
36 Pratt, “Introduction” to the Viking Critical Edition, p. xv, emphasis in the original.
37 For example, by R.H. Miller, Understanding Graham Greene (University of South Carolina Press, 1990), p. 106.
38 Miller, Understanding Graham Greene, p. 109, also reads the triangle as a political representation, calling it a “metonymy…for the larger struggle.”
39 See Pratt, Viking Critical Edition, pp. 315-316.
40 Herring, America’s Longest War, p. 25.
41 Herring, America’s Longest War, p. 42.