General Maxwell Taylor: The Sword and the Pen

New York: Doubleday, 1989. First edition. First edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xvii, [1], 457, [3] p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Foreword by Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. From Wikipedia: "General Maxwell Davenport "Max" Taylor (August 26, 1901 April 19, 1987) was a United States Army four star general and diplomat of the mid-20th century, who served as the fifth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after having been appointed by the President of the United States John F. Kennedy. Taylor was born in Keytesville, Missouri and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922. Taylor's rise to the highest echelons of U.S. government began under the tutelage of General Matthew B. Ridgway in the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division when Ridgway commanded the division in the early part of World War II. In 1943, Taylor jumped into Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was the first Allied general to land in France on D-Day. He commanded the 101st Airborne Division for the rest of the war. From 1955 to 1959, he was the Army Chief of Staff. As Army Chief of Staff, Taylor was an outspoken critic of the Eisenhower Administration's defense policy, which he viewed as over-reliant on nuclear arms. Frustrated with the administration's failure to heed his arguments, General Taylor retired from active service in July 1959. After the April 1961 failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Kennedy appointed Taylor to head a task force to investigate the failure of the invasion. Kennedy appointed Taylor as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a position in which he served until 1964.