Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

Goldstein, Gordon M.

ISBN 10: 0805079718 / ISBN 13: 9780805079715

Published by Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2008

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xiii, [3], 300, [2] p. Identification of key members of the Kennedy and Johnson Administration. Notes. Index. 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. From an on-line posting: "Gordon M. Goldstein is a scholar of international affairs who has served as an international security adviser to the Strategic Planning Unit of the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General and as a Wayland Fellow and guest lecturer at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He received his BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in political science and international relations from Columbia University, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Brooklyn, New York." Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
• Publisher: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805079718
• ISBN 13: 9780805079715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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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. 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. He enlisted the collaboration of the political scientist Gordon M. Goldstein, and together they explored what happened and what might have been. With Bundy s death in 1996, that manuscript could not be completed, but Goldstein has built on their collaboration in an origi

About the Author

Gordon M. Goldstein is a scholar of international affairs who has held executive positions in international security policy and finance. He received a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from Columbia University, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Brooklyn, New York.