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100 1 $aMcNamara, Robert S.,$d1916-2009.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012933
245 10 $aIn retrospect :$bthe tragedy and lessons of Vietnam /$cRobert S. McNamara ; with Brian VanDeMark.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bTimes Books,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axviii, 414 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. My Journey to Washington: June 9, 1916-January 20, 1961 -- 2. The Early Years: January 19, 1961-August 23, 1963 -- 3. The Fateful Fall of 1963: August 24-November 22, 1963 -- 4. A Time of Transition: November 23, 1963-July 29, 1964 -- 5. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution: July 30-August 7, 1964 -- 6. The 1964 Election and Its Aftermath: August 8, 1964-January 27, 1965 -- 7. The Decision to Escalate: January 28-July 28, 1965 -- 8. The Christmas Bombing Pause, An Unsuccessful Attempt to Move to Negotiations: July 29, 1965-January 30, 1966 -- 9. Troubles Deepen: January 31, 1966-May 19, 1967 -- 10. Estrangement and Departure: May 20, 1967-February 29, 1968 -- 11. The Lessons of Vietnam -- Appendix: The Nuclear Risks of the 1960s and Their Lessons for the Twenty-first Century.
520 $aRobert S. McNamara, the brilliant secretary of defense for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, helped lead America into Vietnam. McNamara believed that the fight against communism in Asia was worth the sacrifice of American lives, and yet he eventually came to believe that the war was, in fact, unwinnable. Outnumbered by those who wanted to continue fighting, he left the Johnson administration and his involvement in Vietnam behind.
520 8 $aHe refused any public comment on the war, and for almost three decades he has kept that silence - until now.
520 8 $aDrawing on his personal experience and a wealth of documentation - much of it only recently declassified and some presented here for the first time ever - McNamara has crafted the classic insider account of Vietnam policy making. He reveals exactly how we stumbled into the war, and exactly why it quickly became so difficult to pull out. We meet John F. Kennedy, and McNamara discloses what he believes Kennedy would have done in Vietnam had he lived. We get to know Lyndon B.
520 8 $aJohnson, and see exactly how the war tore him apart and damaged his entire presidency. We sit in on secret meetings, we read private cables, and we hear the voices and arguments of the men who battled over America's Vietnam policy. McNamara takes us into the Oval Office for late-night discussions with the president, into the halls of the Pentagon as military strategy is argued, and into the chambers of Congress as policy is debated. He also reveals his own inner torment as the war effort becomes increasingly frustrating, and then utterly disastrous.
520 8 $aThe result is a book that is not only history of the highest order, but a revealing portrait of the trials of leadership.
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143292
700 1 $aVanDeMark, Brian,$d1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88094769
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