The universe unraveling American foreign policy in Cold War Laos /
Seth Jacobs.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (x, 312 pages)
- The United States in the world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
A long country inhabited by lotus eaters : Washington encounters Laos -- A soft buffer : Laos in the Eisenhower administration's grand strategy -- Help the seemingly unhelpable : Little America and the U.S. aid program in Laos -- Foreigners who want to enslave the country : American neocolonialism, Lao defiance -- Doctor Tom and Mister Pop : American icons in Laos -- Retarded children : Laos in the American popular imagination -- No place to fight a war : Washington backs away from Laos.