Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 ‘‘Colonialism, Communism, or Catholicism?’’: Mr. Diem Goes to Washington 25
6. 2 ‘‘Our System Demands the Supreme Being’’: America’s Third Great Awakening 60
7. 3 ‘‘These People Aren’t Complicated’’: America’s ‘‘Asia’’ at Midcentury 88
8. 4 ‘‘Christ Crucified in Indo- China’’: Tom Dooley and the North Vietnamese Refugees 127
9. 5 ‘‘The Sects and the Gangs Mean to Get Rid of the Saint’’: ‘‘Lightning Joe’’ Collins and the Battle for Saigon 172
10. 6 ‘‘This God-Fearing Anti-Communist’’: The Vietnam Lobby and the Selling of Ngo Dinh Diem 217
11. Conclusion 263
12. Notes 277
13. Bibliography 339
14. Index 367