The End of AmbitionA groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U. S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s. At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. With U. S. power, resources, and expertise, almost anything seemed possible in the