About George Herring: Vietnam War R e t r o spective




				GEORGE C. HERRING is Alumni Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. He received the Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Virginia , and he has taught at Ohio University as well as the University of Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays, including The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers (1983), and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (1994). He served as editor of the scholarly journal Diplomatic History from 1982 to 1986, and was President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 19990. In 1991, he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and in 1993-1994 he was visiting professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. (Excerpted from America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, by George C. Herring, published by McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1996.) Praise for Herring's book: "George Herring's book is the best overview of the Vietnam War available. It is comprehensive, yet readable. The third edition of this widely adopted book adds new insights to his previous research. Herring critically appraises all aspects of the war; his goal is a better, fuller understanding of the war--not a simplistic praising or blaming of individuals, groups, or "sides." That perspective is well suited of a course exploring the origins, phases, results, and legacies of American involvement in Vietnam, 1945-1975." George W. Hopkins Professor of History College of Charleston
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