Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam Paperback - 1998
by H. R. McMaster
From a Desert Storm hero comes a brilliant, thoroughly documented, and devastating account telling how LBJ and his principal advisors turned the problem of Vietnam into a full-scale American war. Photo insert.
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The disaster of the Vietnam War would dominate America' memory of a decade that began with great promise.
From the rear cover
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C."
- H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on recently released transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. It also pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants.
Dereliction Of Duty covers the story in strong narrative fashion, focusing on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, General Maxwell Taylor, McGeorge Bundy and other top aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Congress and the American public.
Sure to generate controversy, Dereliction Of Duty is an explosive and authoritative new look at the controversy concerning the United States involvement in Vietnam.
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- Title Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
- Author H. R. McMaster
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later printing
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 1998-05-08
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780060929084 / 0060929081
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Johnson, Lyndon B, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.704
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