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Nothing is impossible : America's reconciliation with Vietnam / Ted Osius ; foreword by John Kerry.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]Description: xxvii, 319 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781978825161
  • 1978825161
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Contents:
Foreword / by John Kerry -- Preface : Biên Hòa Cemetery -- An improbable friendship -- A time to heal and a time to build -- The story of Pete Peterson -- David and Goliath -- Legacies of war -- Think unthinkable thoughts -- Diplomacy on a bicycle seat -- Châu, Khié̂t, and the students of Vietnam -- China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- The Communist Party -- The Notorious RBG -- A new journey -- A new President -- Ditches and tree roots -- Epilogue : Reconciliation.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by John Kerry -- Preface : Biên Hòa Cemetery -- An improbable friendship -- A time to heal and a time to build -- The story of Pete Peterson -- David and Goliath -- Legacies of war -- Think unthinkable thoughts -- Diplomacy on a bicycle seat -- Châu, Khié̂t, and the students of Vietnam -- China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- The Communist Party -- The Notorious RBG -- A new journey -- A new President -- Ditches and tree roots -- Epilogue : Reconciliation.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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