Table of Contents

The Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964
 

Prologue: A Tale of Two Walls

Part I: The Drama

1."Sauve qui peut": Signs and Portents
    January 25 to May 7

2. "Who Are These People?"
    May 8 to June 28

3. "Sleeping in the Same Bed, Dreaming Different Dreams"
    June 29 to August 23

4. "Doing Business on the Weekend"
    August 24 to August 27

5. Selma and Saigon
    August 28 to August 31

6. The Presidential Seal
    September 1 to October 4

7. Who Will Kowtow?
    October 5 to October 28

8. Last Rites and Final Judgments
    October 29 to November 22

9. Aftershocks
    November 23, 1963, to February 15, 1964
 

Part II: The Players

10. Dean Rusk:  An Embarrassment of Ethics

11. Ngo Dinh Diem:  Mandarin to an Empty Throne

12. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.:  An American Raj

13. The New York Times:  Tragic Chorus or Protagonist in a Tragedy?

14. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:  Selective Conscientious Objection
 

Part III: An American Morality Tale

15. Lessons of the Year of the Hare
 

Epilogue: The Mirror of the Wall
 

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