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Road to Disaster audiobook
- By: Brian VanDeMark
- Narrator: Ron Butler
- Category: 20th Century, History, Modern
- Length: 23 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 18, 2018
- Language: English
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Road to Disaster Audiobook Summary
“The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering.”–Robert Dallek
Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly.
That changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson. Yet beyond that, Road to Disaster is also the first history of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why the “Best and the Brightest” became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent, why they found change so hard, and why they were so blind to their own errors.
An epic history of America’s march to quagmire, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a book of immense importance.
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Road to Disaster Audiobook Narrator
Ron Butler is the narrator of Road to Disaster audiobook that was written by Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark teaches history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, where for more than twenty-five years he has educated students about the Vietnam War. A Ph.D. graduate of UCLA and an elected visiting fellow at Oxford University, he served as research assistant on Clark Clifford’s bestselling autobiography, Counsel to the President, and coauthor of Robert McNamara’s number one bestseller, In Retrospect. A Texas native, he now lives in Maryland.
About the Author(s) of Road to Disaster
Brian VanDeMark is the author of Road to Disaster
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Road to Disaster Full Details
| Narrator | Ron Butler |
| Length | 23 hours 12 minutes |
| Author | Brian VanDeMark |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | September 18, 2018 |
| ISBN | 9780062847089 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Road to Disaster is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is 20th Century, History, Modern
Additional info
The publisher of the Road to Disaster is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062847089.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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