Background To Vietnam Author:Bernard Newman Background to Vietnam. Headlines scream across the nation: hearings rage on the Senate floor: by executive order the United States pours more men and equipment into Vietnam...and a confused American public demands to know what is happening. Here is a book that is essential to an understanding of today's news- Bernard Newman's unbiased, its poli... more »tics, its leaders. Here are the reasons why Vietnam has become the hottest trouble spot in the world today.« less