Books : Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara
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by: Deborah Shapley
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780788151811
ISBN: 0788151819
Label: Diane Pub Co
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
Publication Date: 1993-02
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Sales Rank: 1737587
Studio: Diane Pub Co
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The first comprehensive biography of Robert S. McNamara follows his road to secretary of defense, where, during the 1960s, he shaped nuclear policy and orchestrated U.S. involvement in Vietnam. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Rating:  - Shows McNamara to be more than a Vietnam Villian...
A very good book and more surprising than one would imagine...most everyone's opinion of Robert McNamara, I'm sure, is that of the cold/calculating pro-Vietnam Defense chief, when, in fact, this book proves that there's much more to him than Vietnam and also proves (in my opinion) that the policy used in the Cuban Missile Crisis (gradual escalation...a perceived success) failed miserably when implemented in Vietnam. Shapley pulls no punches when she feels that McNamara is holding back or hiding something, ... Read More
Rating:  - More Revealing than McNamara Himself
Of all the things in this book, a few stand out as being unique. While November of 1965 might not be of much importance for most people, it was particularly troubling for the Secretary of Defense. This book puts that time in Chapter 17, called "Two Enormous Miscalculations." The most unexpected event on November 2 was the death of "a thirty-one-year-old Quaker pacifist" named Norman Morrison, who had "drenched himself in kerosene and burned himself to death" in "the parking lot below the window of ... Read More
Rating: - excellent - the book that needed to be written
This book caused Bob McNamara to write the book that he said he would not write. Deborah Shapley did an outstanding job. It was well researched covering millions of years that shaped mountains, rivers, races, wars and events that lead to what we called Vietnam. The role of Wilson after WW1 and '...let the peoples decide...' did not include Ho Chi Minh. If Japan and France could not control Vietnam, how could the U.S.A.? VERY Costly error.
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