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Gordon M. GoldsteinPublication Details
Book1st edTimes Books/Henry Holt and Co2008Availability
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A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the war?s architects I had a part in a great failure. With Bundy?s death in 1996, that manuscript could not be completed, but Goldstein has built on their collaboration in an original and provocative work of presidential history that distills the essential lessons of America?s involvement in Vietnam. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- 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
Notes
- 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
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
ISBN
- 9780805079715
- 0805079718
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