 Название: Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
Автор: Brian VanDeMark
Издательство: Custom House
ISBN: 0062449745
Год: 2018
Страниц: 656
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
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 fully explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men failed so badly. With this book - more than twenty years in the making - that changes.
In Road to Disaster, acclaimed historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own exclusive interviews with many of the officials involved with the war, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as defense secretaries for presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Beyond that, Road to Disaster is the first account of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why “the best and the brightest” became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent; why they found change so hard; and why they were so blind to their own errors.
A comprehensive history of America’s descent into Vietnam during the 1960s that posits a striking new way of understanding that catastrophe, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a work of paramount importance, both in comprehending what happened and why, and - just as importantly - preventing fiascoes in the future.
"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering."- Robert Dallek
Contents:
Prologue: A Very Human Culprit
Chapter 1: The Danger of Unquestioned Assumptions (January–April 1961)
Chapter 2: The Limits of Imagination (April 1961–October 1962)
Chapter 3: The Failure of Anticipation (October 1962–November 1963)
Chapter 4: The Peril of Short-Term Thinking (November 1963–July 1965)
Chapter 5: The Hazard of Sunk Costs (August 1965–May 1967)
Chapter 6: The Jeopardy of Conflicting Loyalties (May 1967–February 1968)
Chapter 7: The Difficulty of Ending War (March 1968–January 1969)
Epilogue: The Burden of Regret
Index
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