Professor Lawrence is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, as well an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of numerous books including The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era which is the subject of our conversation this week. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam
Too Late or Too Soon? Debating the Withdrawal from Vietnam in the Age of Iraq
