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, New York, 2008

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8vo, 300 pp.

Seller Inventory # 073958

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
• Publisher: Times Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805079718
• ISBN 13: 9780805079715
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

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Synopsis

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.