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"Stunning....The portrait of the embattled and unyielding president that emerges is vivid and memorable."―Publishers Weekly

By 1968, the United States had committed over 525,000 men to Vietnam and bombed virtually all military targets recommended by the joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet, the United States was no closer to securing its objectives than it had been prior to the Americanization of the war. The long-promised light at the end of the tunnel was a mirage. This absorbing account reveals the bankruptcy of the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, the failures of political reform in South Vietnam and the bitter bureaucratic conflicts between the US government and its military commanders.

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April 17, 1991
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0393307786
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978-0393307788
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Berman discusses the reactions of LBJ and his advisors to the failure of military policy in Vietnam, the manipulation of intelligence from the field to portray success and the widening division between the hawks and the doves. ``The portrait of the embattled and unyielding president that emerges is vivid and memorable,'' said PW. Photos.

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Lyndon Johnson's war focuses on the repercussions from President Johnson's failure to address the fundamental incompatibility between his political objectives at home and his military objectives in Vietnam.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; New edition (April 17, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393307786
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393307788
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1290L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,779,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,730 in Southeast Asia History
- #3,485 in Vietnam War History (Books)
- #4,097 in Military Strategy History (Books)

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D W

Outstanding

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2017

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Like Berman's other books on Vietnam. Outstanding

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2014

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A piece of history during the LBJ era, during the Vietnam War years, will be interesting.

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Vintage Racer

Revealing

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2013

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Provides insight into how LBJ was set-up by the generals and McNamara's role ion dragging the US into this mess. The confluence of LBJ's military advisers create the quick-sand that brought the US to a losing war.

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John R Daraujo Jr

Excellent background information

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016

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The author peels back the onion to expose the deep background o n why US policy in Vietnam was fatally flawed. It brings clarity to what many suspected but we're unsure of until reading this book.

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Luiza Vartavarian

A great book on the nightmare of vietnam

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2004

The author uses the politicians own words to condemn them. Bob McNamara the best brighest and most able of all the Secrataries of Defense before or since really loused this war up, yet he was one of the first to realize, by mid 1967, that they war was a disaster and we needed to get the hell out, but the war, as berman convining argues, was lyndon johnson's not McNamara's Johnson's subordinates lied and cheated the american people into a false sense of confidence just because they wanted to please their boos, I think johnson did very many good things for america (Medicare, food stamps, college grants, evivil right, the list is quite long....) and yet he was such an egomaniac and wanted to desperately to prove america could do anything anywhere anytime that the North Vietnamese beat us at our own game, they proved to us that they could endure crushing losses and destruction anywhere, anytime, and still they would not give in. it was a faceoff and we blinked first,thus we lost the war fair and square, or rather Lyndon Johnson's war was a defeat for Johnson and thus for america, i think johnson saw himself and america as one, he personalized the war too greatly and once the war could not be won it killed him.I hope we never get involved in anything quite like that war ever again, true we killed millions of enemy soldiers, Viet Cong, and even innocent civilians but the Vietnamese were able to win through shear force of will. the sooner we accept the fact that we lost the better

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Cassandra

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Trevor Middleton

Fascinating insight to US policy during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson

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The central theme of this book seems to me to be the association of Lyndon Johnson with the Vietnam war. The book implies that most of the responsibility for the war rests with him - because he was president at the time. But this theme is obviously incorrectly conceived.

It was the French who colonised Vietnam against the will of the people who lived there. The French appealed to the US for aid to prevent the Vietnamese people from obtaining freedom. President Truman agreed the American involvement in Vietnam and is as much to blame for what followed as anyone. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy increased the US involvement in Vietnam to such a degree that Lyndon Johnson felt obliged to carry on the conflict. His successor, Nixon, also continued in much the same vane. Many American politicians supported Johnson and urged him on - they have to stand up and be counted too.

The book fails to point out that American fear of communism lay behind US policy in Vietnam for decades.

Having said all that the book is a good read, it is well worth reading since it charts a very important time in the history of the war in Vietnam. It is easy to read, if somewhat wordy, and conveys well what was happening at the higher level politically.

In summary this was a complex war and no one person could ever be held accountable for it.

Elaine

Book is as it says a great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2019

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m j bailey

A Well Constructed Recipe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2009

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This book reads like a well constructed recipe with each ingredient well highlighted and examined. Deceit, arrogance, ignorance, naivity and pride all well mixed to produce the final disastrous dish that was US involvement in Vietnam. One of the best I have read. Do not miss out on reading the appendices. The book is well constructed, easy to read and at times both angered and saddened me.

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