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100 1 $aGoldstein, Gordon M.
245 10 $aLessons in disaster :$bMcGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam /$cGordon M. Goldstein.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bTimes Books/Henry Holt and Co.,$c2008.
300 $axiii, 300 p. ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-284) and index.
505 0 $aLegend of the establishment -- Counselors advise but presidents decide -- Never trust the bureaucracy to get it right -- Politics is the enemy of strategy -- Conviction without rigor is a strategy for disaster -- Never deploy military means in pursuit of indeterminate ends -- Intervention is a presidential choice, not an inevitability.
520 $aDrawing 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.
600 10 $aBundy, McGeorge.
600 10 $aBundy, McGeorge$xPolitical and social views.
610 20 $aNational Security Council (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xCauses.
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650 0 $aNational security$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zVietnam.
651 0 $aVietnam$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1961-1963$xDecision making.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1963-1969$xDecision making.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008033291-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008033291-d.html
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