Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy

McNamara, Robert S.; Blight, James G.; and Brigham, Robert K. (Robert Kendall)

ISBN 10: 1891620223 / ISBN 13: 9781891620225

Published by Public Affairs, New York, 1999

About this Item

479, illus., maps, appendices, notes, index. Over a period of four years, in six unprecedented meetings held in Hanoi and a seventh meeting in Italy, McNamara, his colleagues in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and America's top Vietnam and military scholars finally met with their Vietnamese counterparts.

Seller Inventory # 20431

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
• Publisher: Public Affairs, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1891620223
• ISBN 13: 9781891620225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition. First Printing.
• Condition: very good, very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cold War
  • Communism
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

About this title

Synopsis

The former Secretary of Defense, and leading scholars from the U.S. and Vietnam, offer groundbreaking new study of exactly how the Vietnam War happened-and why it could not be stopped before millions died.

Drawing on an array of recently declassified documents and a series of unprecedented meetings with former top North Vietnamese leaders, Argument Without End re-frames the war and the decision-making that surrounded it. It draws surprising conclusions, many of which debunk conventional wisdom and which will no doubt cause debate among scholars, journalists, veterans, military personnel, and ordinary Americans who lived through the war era. Like no other book before it, Argument Without End allows us to look at the decisions that led to the war and to its tragic, ultimately pointless continuation. It also shows conclusively that the war could not be won militarily by the United States. One of the most important works on Vietnam to be published, Argument Without End is also a book of lasting relevance to all who seek to quell the conflicts between nations.

About the Author

Robert S. McNamara was Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. A former president of Ford Motor Company and the World Bank, he lives in Washington, D.C.