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Frederik Logevall is a professor of history and one of the\\xa0foremost American scholars of the Vietnam War. His most recent book,\\xa0Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America\'s Vietnam\\xa0won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. We sat down at the American Historical Association\'s 2015 Annual Meeting\\xa0and talked about French imperialism, LBJ\'s stubborn personality, the "handcuff" of domestic politics, the uses of counterfactual history, and much more.