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The Color of Truth

McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
516 Seiten
Englisch
Touchstoneerschienen am21.06.2000
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus-this biography of the Bundy Brothers inspired the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer.In this definitive biography of McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, two of "the best and the brightest" who advised presidents about peace and war during the most dangerous years of the Cold War, Kai Bird pens a portrait of the fiercely patriotic, brilliant, and brazenly self-confident men who directed a steady escalation of a war they did not believe could be won. Drawing on seven years of research, nearly one hundred interviews, and scores of still-classified top secret documents in a masterful reevaluation of America's actions throughout the Cold War and Vietnam, The Color of Truth tells the tale of the anti-communist liberals who, despite their grave doubts about sending Americans to fight in Southeast Asia, became key architects of America's war in Vietnam. Like the bestselling The Wise Men, this dual biography is both an inside account of the making of US foreign policy in an era of nuclear weapons and a stunning group portrait of the heirs of the Wise Men-including Robert McNamara, George Ball, and Robert Kennedy-and the presidents they served.mehr
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KlappentextFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus-this biography of the Bundy Brothers inspired the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer.In this definitive biography of McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, two of "the best and the brightest" who advised presidents about peace and war during the most dangerous years of the Cold War, Kai Bird pens a portrait of the fiercely patriotic, brilliant, and brazenly self-confident men who directed a steady escalation of a war they did not believe could be won. Drawing on seven years of research, nearly one hundred interviews, and scores of still-classified top secret documents in a masterful reevaluation of America's actions throughout the Cold War and Vietnam, The Color of Truth tells the tale of the anti-communist liberals who, despite their grave doubts about sending Americans to fight in Southeast Asia, became key architects of America's war in Vietnam. Like the bestselling The Wise Men, this dual biography is both an inside account of the making of US foreign policy in an era of nuclear weapons and a stunning group portrait of the heirs of the Wise Men-including Robert McNamara, George Ball, and Robert Kennedy-and the presidents they served.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-684-85644-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2000
Erscheinungsdatum21.06.2000
Seiten516 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 31 mm
Gewicht829 g
Artikel-Nr.13543727

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
ContentsIntroduction1 Harvey Hollister Bundy: The Patriarch2 Groton: A Very Expensive Education3 Yale: The "Great Blue Mother"4 The War Years, 1941-19455 Stimson's Scribe6 Portrait of a Young Policy Intellectual, 1948-19537 Dean Bundy of Harvard, 1953-19608 William Bundy and the CIA, 1951-19609 The Kennedy Years10 The Cuban Missile Crisis11 Autumn Assassinations12 LBJ and Vietnam, 196413 Vietnam: The Decision, 196514 Vietnam Quagmire, 1966-196915 The Ford Foundation16 Vietnam AftermathNotesInterviewsSelect BibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndexmehr

Autor

Kai Bird is the co-author with Martin J. Sherwin of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Prometheus:The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005), which also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. His other books include The Chairman: John J. McCloy, the Making of the American Establishment (1992) and The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy & William Bundy, Brothers in Arms (1998). Bird's many honours include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A contributing editor of the Nation, he lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, with his wife and son.