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1. 1. Lessons In Disaster

   McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

   

   Lessons in Disaster examines the decisions that drew the United States into the Vietnam War through the reassessment of McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Drawing on Bundy’s reflections and Gordon M. Goldstein’s research, the book traces the key misjudgments and policy choices that led to escalation and distills lessons about presidential decision‑making and the limits of American power.

   The 17007th Greatest Book of All Time

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