{"product_id":"road-to-disaster-a-new-history-of-americas-descent-into-vietnam","title":"Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam","description":"\"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering.\"—Robert Dallek\nMany books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly.\nThat changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson. Yet beyond that, Road to Disaster is also the first history of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why the \"Best and the Brightest\" became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent, why they found change so hard, and why they were so blind to their own errors.\nAn epic history of America’s march to quagmire, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a book of immense importance.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0062449745\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0062449745.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:VanDeMark, Brian\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41824830685242,"sku":"DBV.0062449745.G","price":8.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0062449745-0.jpg?v=1792728771","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/road-to-disaster-a-new-history-of-americas-descent-into-vietnam","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}