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100			_aPierre Brocheux _927581
245			_aHo chi minh: A biography
260			_aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c2007
300			_axxi,165 p. _bHB _c23x16 cm.
365			_b995.00 _c₹ _d995.00
520			_aHo Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering. In a concise and highly readable account, he negotiates the many twists and turns of Ho Chi Minh's life and his multiple identities, from impoverished beginnings as a communist revolutionary to his founding of the Indochina Communist Party and the League for the Independence of Vietnam and ultimately to his leadership of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and his death in 1969. Biographical events are adroitly placed within the broader historical canvas of colonization, decolonization, communism war, and nation building. Brocheux's vivid and convincing portrait of Ho Chi Minh goes further than any previous biography in explaining both the myth and the man, as well as the times in which he was situated.
650			_aBiography _927441
650			_aPresidents _927442
650			_aHeads of State _927443
650			_aVietnam _927444
700			_aBROCHEUX (Pierre) _927445
700			_aDUIKER (Claire) Tr _927446
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