The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War Tapa blanda - 1997
de Paul Hendrickson
A heroic feat of research, reportage, and moral indignation, this brilliant and controversial book tells the story of Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense who came to symbolize all the arrogance and evasiveness of the war in Vietnam. A National Book Award finalist & a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. Photos.
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism "Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best and the Brightest and All the President's Men."
--San Francisco Chronicle More than the two presidents he served or the 58,000 soldiers who died for his policies, Robert McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was. This brilliantly insightful, morally devastating book tells us why he believed, how he lost faith, and what his deceptions cost five of the war's witnesses and McNamara himself.
In The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes McNamara's story with those of a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect. The result is a book whose exhaustive research and imaginative power turn history into an act of reckoning, damning and profoundly sympathetic, impossible to put down and impossible to forget. "A masterpiece. . . . [Hendrickson] has a gift with language that most writers can only dream about. "
--Philadelphia Inquirer "Approaches Shakespearian tragedy."
--The New York Times Book Review
Detalles
- Título The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
- Autor Paul Hendrickson
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Softcover Ed
- Páginas 448
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Vintage, New York
- Fecha de publicación October 28, 1997
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780679781172 / 067978117X
- Peso 0.93 libras (0.42 kg)
- Dimensiones 8 x 5.21 x 0.93 pulgadas (20.32 x 13.23 x 2.36 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States, McNamara, Robert S.
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 96007445
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.7
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- New York Times, 01/11/1998, Page 20
- Publishers Weekly, 09/15/1997, Page 74
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