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Fredrik Logevall: How the U.S. Fumbled into Vietnam [VIDEO]
tags: American Historical Association, videosFredrik Logevall's Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for history. Here, the Cornell University professor explains how American lurched to war in Vietnam, and why Ho Chi Minh was a more complicated actor than policymakers of the time understood.
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