The war council : McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam / Andrew Preston.
2006
DS558 .P745 2006
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Title
The war council : McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam / Andrew Preston.
Author
ISBN
9780674056800 (electronic bk.)
0674056809 (electronic bk.)
0674021983
9780674021983
0674021983 (alk. paper)
9780674021983 (alk. paper)
9780674046320
0674046323
0674056809 (electronic bk.)
0674021983
9780674021983
0674021983 (alk. paper)
9780674021983 (alk. paper)
9780674046320
0674046323
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 320 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
9780674021983
Call Number
DS558 .P745 2006
System Control No.
(OCoLC)658218854
Summary
"Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? Historians have long assumed that ideological views and the momentum of events made American intervention inevitable. By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council, Andrew Preston demonstrates that policymakers escalated the conflict in Vietnam in the face of internal opposition, external pressures, and a continually failing strategy." "In challenging the prevailing view of Bundy as a loyal but quietly doubting warrior, Preston also revises our understanding of what it meant - and means - to be a hawk or a dove. The War Council is a story with two inseparable themes: the acquisition and consolidation of power; and how that power is exercised."--Jacket
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The mentor: Stimson's influence on Bundy
A foreign office in microcosm: creating the National Security Adviser and re-creating the NSC staff
Learning to fear the bomb: Kennedy's crises and the origins of detente
The hawk: Rostow and the first attempt at Americanization
The soft hawk: Forrestal and nonmilitary escalation
Bundy the adviser: the drift to war
Bundy the advocate: the rush to war
Bundy ambivalent: rolling thunder, student unrest, and the decision to commit troops
Bundy resilient: the bombing pause and the continuing search for a successful policy
Legacies.
A foreign office in microcosm: creating the National Security Adviser and re-creating the NSC staff
Learning to fear the bomb: Kennedy's crises and the origins of detente
The hawk: Rostow and the first attempt at Americanization
The soft hawk: Forrestal and nonmilitary escalation
Bundy the adviser: the drift to war
Bundy the advocate: the rush to war
Bundy ambivalent: rolling thunder, student unrest, and the decision to commit troops
Bundy resilient: the bombing pause and the continuing search for a successful policy
Legacies.
Access Note
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Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
Source of Description
Print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Preston, Andrew, 1973- War council. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006
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