Dereliction of duty : Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that...
Dereliction of duty : Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that...
Dereliction of duty : Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam / H.R. McMaster.
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New York : HarperCollins, c1997.
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N959.7043373/70
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English
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xviii, 446 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
New York : HarperCollins, c1997.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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The roles played by the president's closest advisers - McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, George Ball, Maxwell Taylor, and especially Robert McNamara - in the decisions to escalate American involvement are central to the story. And the reasons behind those decisions - now exposed - challenge McNamara's claim that American policy makers were prisoners of th...
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Dereliction of duty : Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam / H.R. McMaster.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-434) and index.
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c1997.
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N959.7043373/70
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74VvppLkwe23
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvppLkwe23
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0060929081 (pbk.)
9780060187958
0060187956
9780060929084 (pbk.)
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959.7043373
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991005148909702626
