ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 Melanson, R. (2015). American foreign policy since the Vietnam War: the search for
consensus from Nixon to Clinton. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor and
Francis.Retrieved August 20, 2018 from,
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Richard Melanson articulate the illuminates relation between president’s domestic and foreign
policy priorities, and it offers compelling portraits of presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford,
Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. In the course of
comparing the efforts of these presidents to eloquent a clear conception of the national interest
and to forge a foreign policy consensus, the author shows the key role of public opinion in
constraining presidential initiatives, in particular the decision to use military force overseas. The
author of this book has two aims first is to describe and evaluate the designs of foreign policy
strategies, and tactics of presidents since Richard and second is to examine the efforts of these
post-Vietnam, post-Cold War and post-9/11 presidents to sell their foreign policies to an often
skeptical congress and public, because of divisive impact and remarkable long term legacy of
Vietnam.This book pays a great deal of attention to the rhetoric used by these presidents to
mobilize mass and elite support for their foreign policy grand designs, strategies, and tactics.
Author argue that the blizzard of presidential words, while not a wholly new phenomenon is ,
nevertheless intimately connected to the systematic packaging and selling of the president and
the image of the presidency, which began in earnest during the Nixon administration

 Gaddis, J. (2005). Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National

Security Policy during Cold War. (pp.235-271). New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, Inc., Retrieved August 20, 2018, from
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John Lewis Gaddis synthesize the United States foreign policy during Cold War period and also
the author of this book argue that United States Foreign Policy consistently and ultimately,
successfully pursued a policy of containment towards the USSR during the Cold War. However,
there was a broad range of options and emphases within containment in terms of how to see and
address the Soviet threat and He asserts that both of these administrations were obsessed with
psychological factors that they worried as much about appearances as reality. Thus, avoiding
humiliation and the appearance of weakness became an end unto itself. Gaddis uses the Vietnam
War as a test case for flexible response, judging it as a clumsy overreaction. His analysis of the
war, although brief, is well done, and serves as a good introduction to the major issues discussed
in Vietnam War literature.