Wilson's Ghost; Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century

McNamara, Robert S.

ISBN 10: 1891620894 / ISBN 13: 9781891620898

Published by Public Affairs, New York, 2001

About this Item

Octavo, xvi, 270pp. Red hardcover, title on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page, with full number line. In publisher's fine dust jacket. Signed on the front free endpaper: "With best wishes, Robert S. McNamara." James G. Blight is a professor of foreign relations and film producer, notably the academy award-winning documentary titled The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Blight developed a new form of oral interview during his conversations with McNamara, called "critical oral history," which relies on declassified documents and the personal insights of key decision makers to refine and enhance the historical understanding of a subject. Both co-authors of this book wrote extensively on the post-Cold War foreign relations of the United States. This book, Wilson's Ghost, was the last book authored by McNamara during his lifetime.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wilson's Ghost; Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century
• Publisher: Public Affairs, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1891620894
• ISBN 13: 9781891620898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Signed by former Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, a first edition of Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing and Catastrophe in the 21st Century.
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • U.S. Politics

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Synopsis

Woodrow Wilson's vision of a collective international action to resist aggressive conflict after the carnage of World War I failed tragically. Over 160 million people died in war during the 20th century, and in Wilson's Ghost, Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight put forth a decisive, multi-faceted action program for realizing Wilson's dream during this century. The plan begins with a moral imperative that establishes as a major goal of foreign policy across the globe the avoidance of war. To that end,enforcement entails only multilateral intervention on the part of the United States; full reconciliation with Russia and China to integrate those nations into relations with the other Great Powers; restructuring the United Nations to greater effectiveness; defining and deterring war crimes; creating UN enforcement; and finally, reducing nuclear danger by eliminating the huge arsenal held by the United States and Russia, and by signing into law the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The authors support their plan with specific, achievable steps that can begin now to ensure a more peaceful 21st century.

About the Author

Robert S. McNamara was president of the Ford Motor Company, secretary of defense to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and president of the World Bank. He is the author of In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, and co-author of Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy. James G. Blight is professor of international relations (research) at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and the author or editor of a dozen books on the recent history of U.S. foreign policy, including Argument Without End.