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Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (19671975)Author(s): K. W. Taylor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University\nISBN-13: 9780877277651, 978-0877277651\nSynopsis\nThe Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified entity throughout the two decades [tel] during which the United States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was achieved during the last eight years.\n\n The essays in Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam [tel] come from those who strove to build a constitutional structure of representative government.