The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War - Rilegato

Hendrickson, Paul

 
9780679427612: The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
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ISBN 10: 0679427619 ISBN 13: 9780679427612
Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

Sinossi

This brilliant, explosive, and passionate book reveals the Vietnam War as we never before have seen it - through the prism of Robert McNamara's crucial and tangled decision-making. It is a book that examines not only the genesis - in McNamara's life and character - of his wartime decisions, but how they altered forever the fates of four men and a woman who, beyond their own human importance, might be said to stand in for all who were caught in the maelstrom that was Vietnam.
In McNamara's looming shadow we are shown, in equally intense detail, five people who were caught up in the wake of his life-and-death decisions: an artist whose long-harbored rage erupts on a Massachusetts ferry as he tries to kill McNamara, by then retired from the Cabinet; a young Marine physically and psychologically scarred by Vietnam battle; a Quaker who immolated himself in protest outside the Pentagon; a nurse desperate to believe her agonies in Vietnam were for a good cause; and a member of a Saigon family enlisted, and then tragically abandoned, by the Americans.
More than a decade in the making, The Living and the Dead is meticulously researched, astonishing in its revelations, and often in conflict with McNamara's own version of events.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Paul Hendrickson is a feature writer for the Washington Post.

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inest books to emerge from the Vietnam experience, The Living and the Dead presents a brilliant study of Robert McNamara, his decision-making during the war, and the way his decisions affected his own life and the lives of five individuals. A monumental work about power, its abuse, and its victims, this meticulously researched, beautifully written, explosive, and passionate book is often in conflict with McNamara's version of events. First serial in the Washington Post. 8 photos.

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inest books to emerge from the Vietnam experience, The Living and the Dead presents a brilliant study of Robert McNamara, his decision-making during the war, and the way his decisions affected his own life and the lives of five individuals. A monumental work about power, its abuse, and its victims, this meticulously researched, beautifully written, explosive, and passionate book is often in conflict with McNamara's version of events. First serial in the Washington Post. 8 photos.

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Editore
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0679427619
ISBN 13 
9780679427612
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
427
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780679781172: The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  067978117X ISBN 13:  9780679781172
Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997
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