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Published on Aug 08, 2017 | 32 Pages
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Published on Aug 08, 2017 | 32 Pages
“Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history, and chronicles the political events and fatal misassumptions that were behind the US involvement in Vietnam.
A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history, and chronicles the political events and fatal misassumptions that were behind the US involvement in Vietnam.
A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
Author
Robert Mcnamara
Robert S. McNamara was secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, president of the Ford Motor Company, and president of the World Bank. After leaving the World Bank he was active in economic development efforts across the globe and in the arms control and non-proliferation movements. He died in 2009.
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