Road to disaster
Subtitle: a new history of America's descent into Vietnam
By: Brian VanDeMark
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9780062449740
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Politics and government; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Description: Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly, until now.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: a very human culprit; title: The danger of unquestioned assumptions (January-April 1961); title: The limits of imagination (April 1961-October 1962); title: The failure of anticipation (October 1962-November 1963); title: The peril of short-term thinking (November 1963-July 1965); title: The hazard of sunk costs (August 1965-May 1967); title: The jeopardy of conflicting loyalties (May 1967-February 1968); title: The difficulty of ending war (March 1968-January 1969); title: Epilogue: the burden of regret.