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The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam / Max Boot.
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Pub Date:
[2018]
ISBN:
9780871409416
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
l, 717 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Ad Man (1908/1945) -- Colonel Landslide (1945/1954) -- Nation Builder (1954/1956) -- Washington Warrior (1957/1963) -- Bastard Child (1964/1968) -- The Beaten Man (1968/1987).
Abstract:
A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust.
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