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Demery, Monique Brinson, 1976-
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Trần, Lê Xuân, 1924-2011
Politicians' spouses -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Biography.
Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Vietnam (Republic) -- History -- Coup d'ťat, 1963.
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Demery, Monique Brinson, 1976-
Trần, Lê Xuân, 1924-2011
Politicians' spouses -- Vietnam (Republic) -- Biography.
Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Vietnam (Republic) -- History -- Coup d'ťat, 1963.
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Finding
the
Dragon
Lady
: the
mystery
of
Vietnam
's
Madame
Nhu
/ Monique Brinson Demery.
by
Demery, Monique Brinson, 1976-
PublicAffairs, c2013.
Call #:
959.7 D376f
Subjects
Trần, Lê Xuân, 1924-2011
Politicians' spouses --
Vietnam
(Republic) -- Biography.
Vietnam
-- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Vietnam
(Republic) -- History -- Coup d'ťat, 1963.
ISBN:
9781610392815 (hc.)
1610392817 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xi, 258 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-244), Internet addresses and index.
Contents:
Paris, 2005 -- Forgotten graves -- A distinguished family -- Portrait of a young
lady
-- Long-distance phone call -- The crossing -- A mountain retreat -- The miracle man of
Vietnam
-- A first
lady
in independence palace -- Tiger skins -- Young Turks and old hacks -- Burning monks -- Too beautiful to ignore -- Closed doors -- Coup d'etat -- In exile.
Summary:
"In November 1963, the president of South
Vietnam
and his brother were brutally executed in a coup that was sanctioned and supported by the American government. President Kennedy later explained to his close friend Paul “Red” Fay that the reason the United States made the fateful decision to get rid of the Ngos was in no small part because of South Vietnam’s first
lady
,
Madame
Nhu
. “That goddamn bitch,” Fay remembers President Kennedy saying, “She’s responsible ... that bitch stuck her nose in and boiled up the whole situation down there.” The coup marked the collapse of the Diem government and became the US entry point for a decade-long conflict in
Vietnam
. Kennedy’s death and the atrocities of the ensuing war eclipsed the memory of
Madame
Nhu—with her daunting mixture of fierceness and beauty. But at the time, to David Halberstam, she was “the beautiful but diabolic sex dictatress,” and Malcolm Browne called her “the most dangerous enemy a man can have.” By 1987, the once-glamorous celebrity had retreated into exile and seclusion, and remained there until young American Monique Demery tracked her down in Paris thirty years later.
Finding
the
Dragon
Lady
is Demery’s story of her improbable relationship with
Madame
Nhu
, and—having ultimately been entrusted with
Madame
Nhu’s unpublished memoirs and her diary from the years leading up to the coup—the first full history of the
Dragon
Lady
herself, a woman who was feared and fantasized over in her time, and who singlehandedly frustrated the government of one of the world’s superpowers."--Dust jacket.
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