Nothing Is Impossible : : America's Reconciliation with Vietnam / / Ted Osius.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Osius, Ted,
• MitwirkendeR: Kerry, John,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 40 color images

Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Photo graphs -- Foreword -- Preface: Biên Hòa Cemetery -- A Note on the Text -- 1 An Improbable Friendship -- 2 A Time to Heal and a Time to Build -- 3 The Story of Pete Peterson -- 4 David and Goliath -- 5 Te Legacies of War -- 6 Tink Unthinkable Toughts -- 7 Diplomacy from a Bicycle Seat -- 8 Châu, Khiet, and the Students of Vietnam -- 9 China and the Trans- Pacifc Partnership -- 10 The Communist Party -- 11 The Notorious RBG -- 12 A New Journey -- 13 A New President -- 14 Ditches and Tree Roots -- Epilogue: Reconciliation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author