Bonus - Making the Republic of Vietnam, Ep. 2 w/ Nu-Anh Tran

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.comDanny welcomes back Nu-Anh Tran, assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, to continue the discussion of her book Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam. In this episode, they pick things up at the 1954 Geneva Conference and the partition of Vietnam. They discuss the implications of partition, President Ngô Đình Diệm’s struggles to centralize control, the 1955 Battle of Saigon, the Bình Xuyên Force, the Cần Lao Party, and more.Grab a copy of Dr. Tran’s book here: https://bit.ly/3cKggnG