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Title: The Unnecessary Book
Review: Like Lind, I have spent a good deal of time in Viet Nam; Like Lind, I am not a Viet Nam veteren; unlike Lind, I have read the history of colonialism and unlike Lind I did not begin my thinking with an ideological fixation and revisionist ideology. This book, simply put, is garbage. Its protrayal of Ho Chi Minh is a gross caricature, its description of contemporary Viet Nam could only have been written by someone with no curiosity and no sense of ambiguity.
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