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LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail

Peter L.W. Osnos

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Description:“In this book, I have sought to blend personal experience, journalism, and scholarship. It is history written by a journalist who was there.”—Peter L. W. Osnos LBJ and The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail details how President Lyndon B. Johnson and his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, made choices central to U.S. strategy in Vietnam, ending in defeat. The portrait emerges of men who knew that conventional victory was impossible but who could not or would not reverse the policies that they and the military pursued.In their own words, especially McNamara’s, how and why this happened is a story never before told with such immediacy and insight. The lessons for today’s policymakers are clear—and could have avoided the outcomes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Discover untold insights of the critical Vietnam War decisions made by President Johnson and Robert McNamara, their struggles with policy reversals, and the lessons relevant to today’s conflicts. Also featuring a unique audio bonus with exclusive, candid audio from McNamara’s memoir creation.“A slim volume with a knife’s edge, even half a century later. . . . [I]n LBJ and McNamara, Osnos nails it.”—Washington Monthly“Utilizing his unprecedented access to the record, Peter Osnos has excavated the complex relationship between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert S. McNamara. Osnos expertly pulls back the curtain, revealing the central role that the character and personalities of these two complicated men played in the decision to escalate the war. We learn something new on almost every page.”—Robert K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, Vassar College, and author of Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam“LBJ and The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail brings to one of history’s most-well covered topics new insights and a deeper understanding of Johnson and McNamara than we have ever had. . . . The approaching fifty-year anniversary of the end of the Vietnam debacle offers the right moment to learn anew.”—Daniel Weiss, Homewood Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University; president emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and author of In That Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam“LBJ and McNamara is a perceptive treatment of the complex but crucial relationship at the heart of U.S. decision making on Vietnam. Peter Osnos vividly conveys how tragedy defined not just the Vietnam war in popular memory but the relationship between two historic figures of twentieth-century America.”—Brian VanDeMark, Professor of History, United States Naval Academy, and author of Road to A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam and Kent An American TragedyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail. To get started finding LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: “In this book, I have sought to blend personal experience, journalism, and scholarship. It is history written by a journalist who was there.”—Peter L. W. Osnos LBJ and The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail details how President Lyndon B. Johnson and his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, made choices central to U.S. strategy in Vietnam, ending in defeat. The portrait emerges of men who knew that conventional victory was impossible but who could not or would not reverse the policies that they and the military pursued.In their own words, especially McNamara’s, how and why this happened is a story never before told with such immediacy and insight. The lessons for today’s policymakers are clear—and could have avoided the outcomes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Discover untold insights of the critical Vietnam War decisions made by President Johnson and Robert McNamara, their struggles with policy reversals, and the lessons relevant to today’s conflicts. Also featuring a unique audio bonus with exclusive, candid audio from McNamara’s memoir creation.“A slim volume with a knife’s edge, even half a century later. . . . [I]n LBJ and McNamara, Osnos nails it.”—Washington Monthly“Utilizing his unprecedented access to the record, Peter Osnos has excavated the complex relationship between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert S. McNamara. Osnos expertly pulls back the curtain, revealing the central role that the character and personalities of these two complicated men played in the decision to escalate the war. We learn something new on almost every page.”—Robert K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, Vassar College, and author of Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam“LBJ and The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail brings to one of history’s most-well covered topics new insights and a deeper understanding of Johnson and McNamara than we have ever had. . . . The approaching fifty-year anniversary of the end of the Vietnam debacle offers the right moment to learn anew.”—Daniel Weiss, Homewood Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University; president emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and author of In That Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam“LBJ and McNamara is a perceptive treatment of the complex but crucial relationship at the heart of U.S. decision making on Vietnam. Peter Osnos vividly conveys how tragedy defined not just the Vietnam war in popular memory but the relationship between two historic figures of twentieth-century America.”—Brian VanDeMark, Professor of History, United States Naval Academy, and author of Road to A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam and Kent An American TragedyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail. To get started finding LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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