Lessons in Disaster - Brossura

Goldstein, Gordon

 
9780805090871: Lessons in Disaster
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ISBN 10: 0805090878 ISBN 13: 9780805090871
Casa editrice: Holt Paperbacks, 2009

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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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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 a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Editore
Holt Paperbacks
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0805090878
ISBN 13 
9780805090871
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
320
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Hamburg
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9780805079715: Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

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ISBN 10:  0805079718 ISBN 13:  9780805079715
Casa editrice: Times Books, 2008
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