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The Living and the Dead : Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
The Living and the Dead Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
Author: Paul Hendrickson
This brilliant, explosive, and passionate book reveals the Vietnam War as we never before have seen it - through the prism of Robert McNamara's crucial and tangled decision-making. It is a book that examines not only the genesis - in McNamara's life and character - of his wartime decisions, but how they altered forever the fates of four ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679427612
ISBN-10: 0679427619
Publication Date: 9/9/1996
Pages: 427
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Leaders, politicians and bureaucrats make impersonal decisions of going to war. This book reveals decisions made about war the way they were made for automobile design and sales. The effect such decisions have on humans is poignantly described here. Heartbreaking stories of just a few individuals are described; what of all the others that we know nothing about?
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The real cost of the Vietnam war is presented here.


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