The War Council : : McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam / / Andrew Preston.
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 Vi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Mentor: Stimson’s Influence on Bundy
- 2 A Foreign Office in Microcosm: Creating the National Security Adviser and Re-creating the NSC Staff
- 3 Learning to Fear the Bomb: Kennedy’s Crises and the Origins of Détente
- 4 The Hawk: Rostow and the First Attempt at Americanization
- 5 The Soft Hawk: Forrestal and Nonmilitary Escalation
- 6 Bundy the Adviser: The Drift to War
- 7 Bundy the Advocate: The Rush to War
- 8 Bundy Ambivalent: Rolling Thunder, Student Unrest, and the Decision to Commit Troops
- 9 Bundy Resilient: The Bombing Pause and the Continuing Search for a Successful Policy
- Epilogue: Legacies
- Notes
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index