America's Miracle Man in VietnamAmericas Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign policy decisions of the postwar era: Americas commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U. S. anticommunism and an absence of other candidates for South Vietnams highest office. Challenging those explanations, Seth Jacobs utilizes religion and race as