New Releases by Robert S. McNamara

President Kennedy''s former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and coauthor Blight (international studies, Brown U.) offer suggestions as to how the United States could and should change its foreign policy and defense policy to incorporate the core objectives of post-WWI Wilsonian ideals. They suggest that the United States make the end of war a major goal of foreign policy and argue that while the U.S. will have to provide leadership, it must not apply its economic, political, or military policy unilaterally. In order to successfully maintain a peaceful world, they believe that a complete rapprochement with China and Russia is necessary in order to prevent the real dangers of Great Power conflict. In addition they offer suggestions towards strengthening the U.N. in a move towards true multilateralism in the reduction of communal violence and the threat from nuclear weapons. c. Book News Inc.

The former Secretary of Defense collaborates with leading scholars from the United States and Vietnam to offer a groundbreaking new study of exactly how the Vietnam War happened--and why it could not be stopped before three million people died. of photos. Map.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider''s account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara''s controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history. With unprecedented candor and drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, McNamara reveals the fatal misassumptions behind our involvement in Vietnam. Keenly observed and dramatically written, In Retrospect possesses the urgency and poignancy that mark the very best histories—and the unsparing candor that is the trademark of the greatest personal memoirs. Includes a preface written by McNamara for the paperback edition.

L''autocritique du secrétaire à la Défense de Kennedy et Johnson, de janvier 1961 à 1968, et des informations de première main, non seulement sur ces sept années de guerre, mais sur la machinerie gouvernementale américaine et son fonctionnement.

并列题名:In retrospect

SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.