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Lessons in Disaster
Contributor(s): Goldstein, Gordon (Author)
ISBN: 0805090878     ISBN-13: 9780805090871
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE:   $21.59  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - Military Policy
- History | Military - Vietnam War
- History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa)
Dewey: 327.730
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.85 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Goldstein, Gordon M.: - Gordon M. Goldstein is a scholar of international affairs who has served as an international security adviser to the United Nations secretary-general and as a Wayland Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. He is the author of Lessons in Disaster. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Brooklyn, New York.