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100 1 $aVanDeMark, Brian,$d1960-$eauthor.
245 10 $aRoad to disaster :$ba new history of America's descent into Vietnam /$cBrian VanDemark.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bCustom House, an imprint of William Morrow,$c[2018]
264 4 $c℗♭2018
300 $axxx, 622 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aMany 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.
505 0 $aPrologue: 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.
600 10 $aJohnson, Lyndon B.$q(Lyndon Baines),$d1908-1973.
600 10 $aKennedy, John F.$q(John Fitzgerald),$d1917-1963.
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1963-1969.
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