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| ISBN: | 9780674056800
0674056809
0674021983
9780674021983
9780674046320
0674046323
0674021983
9780674021983
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Preston, Andrew, 1973- War council. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006
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| Standard no.: | 9780674021983
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