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Marvin Kalb

Haunting Legacy

Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama

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The United States had never lost a war-that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country. The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on the decision of whether to put boots on the ground and commit troops to war.In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb presents a compelling, accessible, and hugely important history of presidential decisionmaking on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war?T… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kalb, Deborah
  • ISBN: 978-0-8157-2440-7
  • EAN: 9780815724407
  • Produktnummer: 22220076
  • Verlag: Brookings Institution Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 356 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 852 KB
  • Auflage: Second Edition

Über den Autor


Marvin Kalb is the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice (emeritus) at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and founding director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Policy. His distinguished career covers thirty years of award-winning coverage and commentary for CBS and NBC News, and he is a former host of Meet the Press. Deborah Kalb is a freelance writer and editor. She worked as a Washington journalist for two decades, writing for Congressional Quarterly and U.S. News and World Report, among other publications.

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