A revelatory portrait of Robert S. Mc Namara, informed by newly discovered diaries, letters, and interviews with those closest to him.
Robert S. Mc Namara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. While he could be cold and arrogant, he was an invaluable friend to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as US secretary of defense and had a deeply moving relationship with Jackie Kennedy. Mc Namara was the leading advocate for American escalation in Vietnam, even after he concluded that the war was unwinnable. He failed to urge Johnson to cut his losses and withdraw.
In Mc Namara at War, Philip and William Taubman examine Mc Namara’s life of intense personal contradictions. They trace his career from a young faculty member at Harvard Business School and his World War II service to his leadership of the Ford Motor Company and the World Bank. Mc Namara at War is a portrait of a man at war with himself—riven by melancholy, guilt, zealous loyalty, and a profound inability to admit his flawed thinking about Vietnam before it was too late.
Circa l’autore
William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. His biography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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