

The End of Ambition
The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era
Author: Mark Atwood Lawrence
Narrator: Jim Seybert
Unabridged: 16 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/09/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Asian & Pacific Islander History, Modern History
Synopsis
By the middle and late 1960s, democracy had given way to dictatorship in many Third World countries, while poverty and inequality remained pervasive. As America's costly war in Vietnam dragged on and as the Kennedy years gave way to the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, America became increasingly risk averse and embraced a new policy of promoting mere stability in the Third World.