LBJ and McNamara

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this book I have sought to blend personal experience journalism and scholarship. It is history written by a journalist who was there.-</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Peter L. W. Osnos</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> details how President Lyndon B. Johnson and his secretary of defense Robert McNamara made choices central to U.S. strategy in Vietnam ending in defeat. The portrait emerges of men who knew that conventional victory was impossible but who could not or would not reverse the policies that they and the military pursued.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In their own words especially McNamara's how and why this happened is a story never before told with such immediacy and insight. The lessons for today's policymakers are clear-and could have avoided the outcomes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Discover untold insights of the critical Vietnam War decisions made by President Johnson and Robert McNamara their struggles with policy reversals and the lessons relevant to today's conflicts. Also featuring a unique audio bonus with exclusive candid audio from McNamara's memoir creation.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A slim volume with a knife's edge even a half century later. . . . [I]n </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>LBJ and McNamara</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Osnos nails it</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.-</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Washington Monthly</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Utilizing his unprecedented access to the record Peter Osnos has excavated the complex relationship between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert S. McNamara. Osnos expertly pulls back the curtain revealing the central role that the character and personalities of these two complicated men played in the decision to escalate the war. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We learn something new on almost every page</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Robert K. Brigham Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations Vassar College and author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> brings to one of history's most-well covered topics </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>new insights and a deeper understanding</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> of Johnson and McNamara than we have ever had. . . . The approaching fifty-year anniversary of the end of the Vietnam debacle offers the right moment to learn anew.-Daniel Weiss Homewood Professor of the Humanities Johns Hopkins University; president emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam</em></p>