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To Build As Well As DestroyAmerican Nation Building in South Vietnam\nAuthor(s): Andrew J. Gawthorpe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501712807, 978-1501712807\nSynopsis\nFor years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South Vietnam in the latter years of the Vietnam War and that it was only the military abandonment of this state that brought down the Republic of Vietnam. But Andrew J. Gawthorpe, through a detailed and incisive analysis, shows that, in fact, the United States failed in its efforts at nation building and had not established a durable state in South Vietnam.\n\n Drawing on newly opened archival collections and previously unexamined oral histories with dozens of [url] military officers and government officials, To Build as Well as Destroy demonstrates that the United States never came close to .