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Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
by Goldstein, Gordon M
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
- ISBN 10
- 0805079718
- ISBN 13
- 9780805079715
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About This Item
New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2008. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. xiii, [3], 300, [2] p. Identification of key members of the Kennedy and Johnson Administration. Notes. Index. 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. From an on-line posting: "Gordon M. Goldstein is a scholar of international affairs who has served as an international security adviser to the Strategic Planning Unit of the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General and as a Wayland Fellow and guest lecturer at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He received his BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees 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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- Ground Zero Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67802
- Title
- Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
- Author
- Goldstein, Gordon M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0805079718
- ISBN 13
- 9780805079715
- Publisher
- Times Books, Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- McGeorge Bundy, Bay of Pigs, George Ball, Michael Forrestal, Ngo Dinh Diem, Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, Maxwell Taylor, Tonkin Gulf, Viet Cong, William Westmoreland
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