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Format:

Book

Author:

Goldstein, Gordon M.

Title:

Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008.

Description:

xiii, 300 pages ; 25 cm

Summary:

Drawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Subjects:

Bundy, McGeorge.

Bundy, McGeorge -- Political and social views.

National Security Council (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Causes.

Political consultants -- United States -- Biography.

Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography.

National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam.

Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963 -- Decision making.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969 -- Decision making.

Genre:

Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-284) and index.

Contents:

Legend of the establishment -- Counselors advise but presidents decide -- Never trust the bureaucracy to get it right -- Politics is the enemy of strategy -- Conviction without rigor is a strategy for disaster -- Never deploy military means in pursuit of indeterminate ends -- Intervention is a presidential choice, not an inevitability.

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Table of contents

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

2008033291

ISBN:

9780805079715

0805079718

Other Number:

243543864

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

235163

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

327.730597 Goldstei