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- Publication Name
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- ISBN
- 9780871409416
- Book Title
- Road Not Taken : Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.8 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Political, Military
- Item Weight
- 43.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 784 Pages
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography) New York Times Bestseller In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0871409410
ISBN-13
9780871409416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237833282
Product Key Features
Book Title
Road Not Taken : Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Number of Pages
784 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Political, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
43.9 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Boot outshines everything ever written about the legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale (1908-1987) in this exhaustive, fact-filled, and analytical biography., Max Boot, one of the premier military historians writing today, has created a fascinating portrait of Edward Lansdale, a maverick in the mold of T.E. Lawrence. But The Road Not Taken is much more than a biography, begging comparison with monumental narratives like Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie. Boot gives us a compelling look back on the Vietnam tragedy, showing that it was by no means the inevitable result of forces beyond the control of our political and military leaders., Deeply researched and evenhanded, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam is a superb scholarly achievement. . . . [Boot] comes at Lansdale having already written two major books on small wars and counterinsurgency, a solid foundation that he takes to a new level here with rigorous research and dogged investigation into little-known corners of Lansdale's life., I couldn't stop reading this engrossing biography of Edward Lansdale, a man who loved his country's ideals and who secretly fought for them in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Washington, DC. Lansdale's story is relevant today, because he was a key figure in the debate over how and how not to use military force to achieve American foreign policy aims. Through Lansdale's efforts we got it right in the Philippines, but no one listened to him in Vietnam. He was forgotten by the time we moved into Afghanistan and Iraq. I fervently hope our policy makers read this book., A capacious biography.... The book is chock-full of operational information on Lansdale's deeds, both quiet and ugly.... This book might work as a star vehicle for Tom Hanks or Matt Damon.... A useful addition to the literature on US foreign policy during the half century bracketed by the US occupation of the Philippines and the disastrous 2003 intervention in Iraq., A brilliant biography of the life--and a riveting description of the times--of Edward Lansdale, one of the most significant figures in post-WWII Philippines and then Vietnam. Just as David Halberstam did in The Best and the Brightest, Max Boot uses superb storytelling skills to cast new light on America's agonizing involvement in Vietnam. The Road Not Taken not only tells Edward Lansdale's story with novelistic verve but also situates it wonderfully in the context of his tumultuous experiences--and offers important lessons for the present day., Edward Lansdale is probably the greatest cold warrior that most Americans have never heard of. Max Boot has written a fascinating account of how this California college humorist, frat boy and advertising executive evolved into a counterinsurgency expert before the term was even coined.... Max Boot has become one of the master chroniclers of American counterinsurgency efforts, and his biography of Mr. Lansdale is a tribute to a guy who recognized the threat of insurgency in a post-World War II environment where most American leaders saw only brute force as a solution to any political-military problem.... This book should be read in Baghdad and Kabul, not only by Americans, but by local leaders., In this fine portrait of Edward Lansdale, Max Boot adds to his well-deserved reputation as being among the most insightful and productive of contemporary historians. This is a superb book. Diligently researched and gracefully written, it builds on a comprehensive analysis of Lansdale's triumphs in the post-World War II Philippines to provide much new material, and expose old myths, about one of the most fascinating, and in many ways ultimately saddest, members of the supporting cast in the later war in Vietnam., An exceptionally well-written, captivating tale of one of the most distinctive characters in American Cold War history.... The Road Not Taken is highly recommended reading for historians of the Cold War and military leaders, Foreign Service officers, and intelligence personnel wrestling with America's current challenges in the small wars of the 21st century, as well as general readers looking for an exhilarating story of a fascinating character in American history., A superb history of the Vietnam conflict and includes fascinating military detail and a firm grasp of both American and Vietnamese politics. Boot's expertise in counterinsurgency makes his arguments compelling, and his rich portrait of Lansdale as a creative if unpredictable maverick adds a new level of understanding not only to Lansdale himself, but also to the entire Vietnam era. This important book--substantially enhanced by excerpts from Lansdale's own writing and augmented by outstanding maps--deserves to be read alongside Neil Sheehan's award-winning A Bright Shining Lie (1988)., "'The Road Not Taken'... is expansive and detailed, it is well written,and it sheds light on a good deal about U.S. covert activities inpostwar Southeast Asia..... [Boot] believes that Lansdale's approach wasthe wiser one, but he is cautious in his analysis of what went wrong...A lot of his book is committed to restoring a sense of proportion tohis subject's image as a political Svengali, or "Lawrence of Asia."", Comprehensively researched and insightfully written--Boot is, as always, an extremely talented writer., A remarkable piece of work, superbly researched and documented. In an ideal world, it would be required reading for all senior American diplomats being posted to underdeveloped nations. Having worked with Lansdale during an important period in his career, I particularly noted how Max Boot skillfully dissected his modus operandi., As one of the last few links to Lansdale, who was also one of his closest on-the-ground collaborators, I can attest that this biography of him is the best, most accurate, revealing and complete portrait yet produced. Even with all I knew, I learned a great deal more that was new which broadened my understanding of this extraordinary man. The very human way he helped the Filipino and Vietnamese people defend their inalienable rights is a shining model to be followed by current and future generations of Americans assigned abroad to assist fragile nations., Boot marshals sharp, devastating anecdotes to show how Lansdale's ideas were dismissed or misunderstood by his contemporaries. . . . The stories this volume tells about voluntary isolation and lack of knowledge, vision, or respect for anything outside U.S. security culture, in all its violent, self-reinforcing whiteness and maleness, have a terrible timelessness to them . . . . We are in his debt for writing a book about another time that challenges us to raise those questions in ours., A brilliant, extremely well-written book about a forgotten figure who was one of the most extraordinary and utterly unorthodox espionage agents in history., A probing, timely study of wrong turns in the American conduct of the Vietnam War. A historian of America's 'small wars' with a keen eye for the nuances of counterinsurgency, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Boot (Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, 2013, etc.) finds a perfect personification of America's Vietnam in Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), much as Neil Sheehan did with John Paul Vann 30 years ago with his book A Bright Shining Lie. . . . Controversial in some of its conclusions, perhaps, as Lansdale's arguments were in their day, and essential reading for students of military policy and the Vietnam conflict., Judicious and absorbing...Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, brings solid credentials to this enterprise...Here he draws on a range of material, official and personal...What emerges is a picture of a man who from an early point possessed an unusual ability to relate to other people, a stereotypically American can-do optimism, an impatience with bureaucracy and a fascination with psychological warfare., The Road Not Taken is an impressive work, an epic and elegant biography based on voluminous archival sources. It belongs to a genre of books that takes a seemingly obscure hero and uses his story as a vehicle to capture a whole era.... Mr. Boot's full-bodied biography does not ignore Lansdale's failures and shortcomings--not least his difficult relations with his family--but it properly concentrates on his ideas and his attempts to apply them in Southeast Asia. ... The Road Not Taken gives a vivid portrait of a remarkable man and intelligently challenges the lazy assumption that failed wars are destined to fail or that failure, if it comes, cannot be saved from the worst possible outcome., Max Boot capably and readably tracks the fascinating but ultimately depressing trajectory of this shadowy figure, who, as a murky undercover operative and a literary and cinematic avatar, looms over or lurks behind some of the crucial moments in U.S. foreign policy in the decades following World War II, culminating in its greatest disaster.
Lccn
2017-047418
Dewey Decimal
959.704/3373092
Lc Classification Number
Jk468.I6
Copyright Date
2018
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