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Road to disaster

a new history of America's descent into Vietnam

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An edition of Road to disaster (2018)

Road to disaster

a new history of America's descent into Vietnam

First edition.

by

  • 1 Want to read

Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly, until now.

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Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow
Language
English
Pages
622

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Subjects

Politics and government, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, united states, United states, foreign relations, 1961-1981, Causes, Foreign relations, Decision making, HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia

People

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

Places

United States

Times

1963-1969

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Table of Contents

Prologue: a very human culprit
The danger of unquestioned assumptions (January-April 1961)
The limits of imagination (April 1961-October 1962)
The failure of anticipation (October 1962-November 1963)
The peril of short-term thinking (November 1963-July 1965)
The hazard of sunk costs (August 1965-May 1967)
The jeopardy of conflicting loyalties (May 1967-February 1968)
The difficulty of ending war (March 1968-January 1969)
Epilogue: the burden of regret.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Date
2018

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
959.7043373
Library of Congress
DS558.2.V36 2018, DS558.2 .V36 2018, DS558 .V36 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxx, 622 pages
Number of pages
622

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26966567M
ISBN 10
0062449745
ISBN 13
9780062449740
LCCN
2018029871
OCLC/WorldCat
1018042386, 1054264205

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