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Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstein, Gordon M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bundy, McGeorge.
- Bundy, McGeorge--Political and social views.
- National Security Council (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- National Security Council (U.S.).
- International relations.
- Decision making.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.
- United States.
- Vietnam.
- Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Causes.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Political consultants--United States--Biography.
- Political consultants.
- Presidents--United States--Staff--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963--Decision making.
- United States--Foreign relations--1963-1969--Decision making.
- National security--United States--History--20th century.
- National security.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Presidents--Staff.
- War--Causes.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 300 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Holt paperbacks edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-284) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780805090871
- 0805090878
- OCLC:
- 436452901
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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