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Description edit
"Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in his revelatory look at Bundy and his brother William, two of the most influential policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Bobby Kennedy: Add a description of this character.
- Lyndon Johnson
- Bill Bundy
- Mcnamara
- Stimson
- Khrushchev
- Dean Acheson
- Forrestal
- Walter Lippmann
- Mccarthy
- Mac Bundy
- Harvey Bundy
- Mary
- Raskin
- Rusk
- Arthur Schlesinger
- Pusey
- Henry Kissinger
- Carl Kaysen
- Galbraith
- Dulles
- Ball
- Averell Harriman
- Ellsberg
- Bissell
- Rostow
- Pforzheimer
- Fulbright
- Diamond
- Harper
- Westmoreland
- Langer
- Joe Alsop
- Moyers
- Hoffmann
- Bellah
- Riesman
Setting & Locations edit
- South Vietnam
- Washington
- White House
- Saigon
- United States
- Cuba
- America
- Groton
- Hanoi
- Cambridge
- New York City
- East Germany
- West Berlin
- Harvard
- Indochina
- North Vietnam
- Laos
- Boston
- Southeast Asia
- Europe
- Soviet Union
- Japan
- Moscow
- Paris
- Hiroshima
- France
- Korea
- Russia
- Manchester
- Munich
- Turkey
- Indonesia
- Pacific
- Gulf Of Tonkin
- Atlantic
- Princeton
- Wall Street
- Geneva
- Pleiku
- Bletchley Park
- New Deal
- Ultra
- Dominican Republic
- New England
First Sentence edit
NO MAN CASTS a longer shadow over the American Century than Henry Lewis Stimson.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0684809702
Page Count: 496
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0684809702
Page Count: 496
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973.920922
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Military & Spies
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Leadership
- Books › History › Military › Life & Institutions
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Military
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Political
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