From Trust to Tragedy Author:Frederick Nolting From Trust to Tragedy is Nolting's frank and perceptive account of the events in Vietnam and Washington that culminated in the overthrow of the Diem government in November 1963. It is the story of how the situation appeared to him as he worked to help Vietnam achieve peace and freedom and why he believed that by encouraging the military revolt a... more »gainst Diem the Kennedy administration set the stage for the tragic war that followed. He pulls no punches in his evaluations of some of the towering figures of the Kennedy administration against whom he had to fight for his policy beliefs.« less