The living and the dead : Robert McNamara and five lives of a lost war
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
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x, 427 pages : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Fort Morgan Public Library - NONFICTION | 959.704 Hendrickson, P. | On Shelf |
Lamar Community College Library (C426.lc) | 959.704 H981 1996 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
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Book
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ( p.409-415) and index.
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"This brilliant, explosive, and passionate book reveals the Vietnam War as we never before have seen it - through the prism of Robert McNamara's crucial and tangled decision-making. It is a book that examines not only the genesis - in McNamara's life and character - of his wartime decisions, but how they altered forever the fates of four men and a woman who, beyond their own human importance, might be said to stand in for all who were caught in the maelstrom that was Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET. "In McNamara's looming shadow we are shown, in equally intense detail, five people who were caught up in the wake of his life-and-death decisions: an artist whose long-harbored rage erupts on a Massachusetts ferry as he tries to kill McNamara, by then retired from the Cabinet; a young Marine physically and psychologically scarred by Vietnam battle; a Quaker who immolated himself in protest outside the Pentagon; a nurse desperate to believe her agonies in Vietnam were for a good cause; and a member of a Saigon family enlisted, and then tragically abandoned, by the Americans."--BOOK JACKET. "More than a decade in the making, The Living and the Dead is meticulously researched, astonishing in its revelations, and often in conflict with McNamara's own version of events."--BOOK JACKET.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hendrickson, P. (1996). The living and the dead: Robert McNamara and five lives of a lost war . Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-. 1996. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hendrickson, Paul. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
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