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Mcgeorge Bundy And The Path To War In Vietnam
Holt Paperbacks
September 2009
On Sale: September 1, 2009
320 pages ISBN: 0805090878 EAN: 9780805090871 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
“A compelling portrait of a man once serenely confident,
searching decades later for self-understanding.”—Richard
Holbrooke, The New York Times Book ReviewI had a part in a
great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation
and execution. If I have learned anything I should share
it.”These are not words that Americans ever expected to hear
from McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to
presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. But in the
last years of his life, Bundy—the only principal architect
of Vietnam strategy to have maintained his public
silence—decided to revisit the decisions that had led to war
and to look anew at the role he played. In this original and
provocative work of presidential history, Gordon M.
Goldstein distills the essential lessons of America’s
involvement in Vietnam, drawing on his prodigious research
as well as interviews and analysis he conducted with Bundy
before his death in 1996. Lessons in Disaster is a
historical tour de force on the uses and misuses of American
power, and offers instructive guidance that we must heed if
we are not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
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