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Author Goldstein, Gordon M.

Title Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam / Gordon M. Goldstein.

Publication Info. New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  327.73 G    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  327.730597 GOL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  327.7305 GOLDSTEIN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  327.7305 GOLDSTEIN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 300 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-284) and index.
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.
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.
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam.
Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Causes.
Bundy, McGeorge.
Bundy, McGeorge -- Political and social views.
Political consultants -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963 -- Decision making.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969 -- Decision making.
National Security Council (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780805079715
0805079718
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