Lessons in Disaster - Softcover

Goldstein, Gordon

 
9780805090871: Lessons in Disaster
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0805090878 ISBN 13: 9780805090871
Verlag: Holt Paperbacks, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

"A compelling portrait of a man once serenely confident, searching decades later for self-understanding."—Richard Holbrooke, The New York Times Book Review

"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.

In this original and provocative work of presidential history, Gordon M. Goldstein distills the essential lessons of America's involvement in Vietnam, drawing on his prodigious research as well as interviews and analysis he conducted with Bundy before his death in 1996. Lessons in Disaster is a historical tour de force on the uses and misuses of American power, and offers instructive guidance that we must heed if we are not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Holt Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805090878
ISBN 13 
9780805090871
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Henry Holt
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