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000327699 1001_ $$aGoldstein, Gordon M.
000327699 24510 $$aLessons in disaster :$$bMcGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam /$$cGordon M. Goldstein.
000327699 250__ $$a1st ed.
000327699 260__ $$aNew York :$$bTimes Books/Henry Holt and Co.,$$c2008.
000327699 300__ $$axiii, 300 p. ;$$c25 cm.
000327699 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-284) and index.
000327699 5050_ $$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.
000327699 520__ $$aDrawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
000327699 60010 $$aBundy, McGeorge.
000327699 60010 $$aBundy, McGeorge$$xPolitical and social views.
000327699 61020 $$aNational Security Council (U.S.)$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000327699 650_0 $$aVietnam War, 1961-1975$$xCauses.
000327699 650_0 $$aPolitical consultants$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
000327699 650_0 $$aPresidents$$zUnited States$$xStaff$$vBiography.
000327699 650_0 $$aNational security$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000327699 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xForeign relations$$zVietnam.
000327699 651_0 $$aVietnam$$xForeign relations$$zUnited States.
000327699 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xForeign relations$$y1961-1963$$xDecision making.
000327699 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xForeign relations$$y1963-1969$$xDecision making.
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