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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
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year — Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism — "Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best and the Brightest and All the President's Men." — --San Francisco Chronicle — More than the two presidents he served or the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679781172
ISBN-10: 067978117X
Publication Date: 10/28/1997
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, 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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