"This detailed probing inquiry makes excellent use of interviews and newly declassified materials from the National Security Council."—Library Journal
"Kimball puts Nixon’s and Kissinger’s Vietnam War maneuverings under a microscope and discovers a malignant cancer on the presidency."—Kirkus Reviews
"Compellingly written with painstaking archival research and an informed interpretation of that research. Anyone interested in the Vietnam War will profit from reading this insightful, finely documented, and scholarly account."—Proceedings
"This book advances our knowledge of one of the key periods in the history of the American experience in Southeast Asia."—American Historical Review
"Kimball’s graphic narrative is an impressive accomplishment that is both readable and informative. It is a richly told tale, almost mythic in its depiction of a tragic period of the Pax Americana and a leader who aspired to use great power to achieve his goal of a peaceful world, but whose hubris had the unintended consequences of death, destruction, and division in Vietnam and America."—The Historian
"Mandatory reading for all those interested in getting a closer look at Nixon’s policies regarding the war in Vietnam."—Military History Online
"An enormously impressive work that lays bare the real Nixon and, along the way, reduces Nixon’s version of the war to a legend of his own making. Will be the standard for understanding Richard Nixon and Vietnam—both central to our contemporary history."—Stanley Kutler, author of Abuse of Power and The Wars of Watergate
"A major accomplishment. Far and away the best study of Nixon’s Vietnam policies we are likely to have for some time."—George Herring, author of America’s Longest War and LBJ and Vietnam
"Kimball explains, as no historian has before, how Nixon and Kissinger conducted their complicated and devious Vietnam War diplomacy. Making brilliant use of new documentary sources and interviews from the American as well as the North Vietnamese side, he has made a singular contribution to our understanding of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and, even more important, to our understanding of that most fascinating of presidents, Richard M. Nixon."—Melvin Small, author of Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves
"An important contribution to our understanding of a tragic period in American politics and diplomacy."—Herbert S. Parmet, author of Richard Nixon and His America
"The most balanced and comprehensive study of the subject that we are likely to have for some time."—David Anderson, editor of Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 1945–1975
"A deeply necessary in-depth look at Nixon. Let us not soon forget."—Oliver Stone
