Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam

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Title:

Lessons in disaster : McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam

Author:

Goldstein, Gordon M.

Personal Author:

Goldstein, Gordon M.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008.

Physical Description:

xiii, 300 pages ; 25 cm

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.

Language:

English

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.

Personal Subject:

Bundy, McGeorge.

Bundy, McGeorge-Political and social views.

Corporate Subject:

National Security Council (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.

Subject Term:

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Causes.

Political consultants -- United States -- Biography.

Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography.

National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam.