{"product_id":"lessons-in-disaster-gordon-m-goldstein-9780805090871","title":"Lessons in Disaster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the war's architects\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I have learned anything I should share it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are not words that Americans ever expected to hear from McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. But in the last years of his life, Bundy--the only principal architect of Vietnam strategy to have maintained his public silence--decided to revisit the decisions that had led to war and to look anew at the role he played. He enlisted the collaboration of the political scientist Gordon M. Goldstein, and together they explored what happened and what might have been. With Bundy's death in 1996, that manuscript could not be completed, but Goldstein has built on their collaboration in an original and provocative work of presidential history that distills the essential lessons of America's involvement in Vietnam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on Goldstein's prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he conducted with Bundy, \u003ci\u003eLessons in Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical tour de force on the uses and misuses of American power. And in our own era, in the wake of presidential decisions that propelled the United States into another war under dubious pretexts, these lessons offer instructive guidance that we must heed if we are not to repeat the mistakes of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805090878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805090871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/11\/2009 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/10\/2010 pg. 59","brand":"Gordon Goldstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986691621119,"sku":"9780805090871","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66a3dad3-4837-491f-b49a-e0b729a32df3.jpg?v=1683284774","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lessons-in-disaster-gordon-m-goldstein-9780805090871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}