books.google.com - For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the history of American support for Diem from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder...http://books.google.com/books/about/Cold_War_Mandarin.html?id=h0_MU8uU60cC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCold War Mandarin