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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam - BON

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État
Bon: Un livre qui a été lu, mais qui est en bon état. La couverture présente des dommages infimes, ...
Brand
Unbranded
MPN
Does not apply
ISBN
9781631495625
Book Title
Road Not Taken : Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication Year
2019
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.7in
Author
Max Boot
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Political, Military
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
40.1 Oz
Number of Pages
768 Pages

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography) A New York Times bestseller, this "epic and elegant" biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1631495623
ISBN-13
9781631495625
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038382965

Product Key Features

Book Title
Road Not Taken : Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Author
Max Boot
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Political, Military
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
768 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
40.1 Oz

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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... 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., A brilliant biography of the life--and a riveting description of the times--of Edward Lansdale, one of the most significant figures in post-World War II Philippines and then 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., 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 expansive and detailed, it is well written, and it sheds light on a good deal about U.S. covert activities in postwar Southeast Asia.... [Boot] believes that Lansdale's approach was the wiser one, but he is cautious in his analysis of what went wrong., Max Boot has now put Lansdale back where he belongs, at the center of the story of the war.... [H]is book is the product of serious scholarship, not ideology. Boot has scoured the archives and found intriguing new material.... The Road Not Taken is an admiring but also critical biography; it invites many quibbles but rewards the reader with an engrossing portrait of a unique figure who defied the bureaucratic values of the institutions in which he served., 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 of 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., 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. . . . This book should be read in Baghdad and Kabul, not only by Americans, but by local leaders., A brilliant, extremely well-written book about a forgotten figure who was one of the most extraordinary and utterly unorthodox espionage agents in history., 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., 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.
Dewey Decimal
959.704/3373092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23

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  • excellent name for biography of Lansdale

    I am a Veitnam veteran and have a lot of questions still after reading a number of books on the subject. Boot covers and answers a number of these in his offering. Excellent

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