The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam /
"In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet Ameri...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The road not taken : |b Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam / |c Max Boot. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Liveright Publishing Corporation, |c [2018] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2018 | |
| 300 | |a l, 717 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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). | |
| 520 | |a "In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American, best-selling historian Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a "hearts and mind" diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was ultimately crushed by America's giant military bureaucracy, steered by elitist generals and blueblood diplomats who favored troop build-ups and napalm bombs over winning the trust of the people. Through dozens of interviews and access to never before-seen documents--including long-hidden love letters--Boot recasts this cautionary American story, tracing the bold rise and the crashing fall of the roguish "T. E. Lawrence of Asia" from the battle of Dien Bien Phu to the humiliating American evacuation in 1975. Bringing a tragic complexity to this so-called "ugly American," this "engrossing biography" (Karl Marlantes) rescues Lansdale from historical ignominy and suggests that Vietnam could have been different had we only listened. With reverberations that continue to play out in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Road Not Taken is a biography of profound historical consequence"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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