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Reckless : Henry Kissinger and the tragedy of Vietnam
- Title
- Reckless : Henry Kissinger and the tragedy of Vietnam / Robert K. Brigham.
- Author
- Brigham, Robert K. (Robert Kendall), 1960-
- Publication
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 297 pages : map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This disturbing new account of Henry Kissinger's Vietnam years shows a blundering, self-serving man who led America to tragedy and Vietnam to waste in an unnecessarily dragged-out, ill-conceived war"--
- Henry Kissinger's role in the Vietnam War prolonged the American tragedy and doomed the government of South Vietnam. The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 after eight years of fighting, bloodshed, and loss. Yet the terms of the truce that ended the war were effectively identical to what had been offered to the Nixon administration four years earlier. Those four years cost America and Vietnam thousands of lives and billions of dollars, and they were the direct result of the supposed master plan of the most important voice in American foreign policy: Henry Kissinger. Using newly available archival material from the Nixon Presidential Library, Kissinger's personal papers, and material from the archives in Vietnam, Robert K. Brigham punctures the myth of Kissinger as an infallible mastermind. Instead, he constructs a portrait of a rash, opportunistic, and suggestible politician. It was personal political rivalries, the domestic political climate, and strategic confusion that drove Kissinger's actions. There was no great master plan or Bismarckian theory that supported how the US continued the war or conducted peace negotiations. Its length was doubled for nothing but the ego and poor judgment of a single figure. This distant tragedy, perpetuated by Kissinger's actions, forever changed both countries. Now, perhaps for the first time, we can see the full scale of that tragedy and the machinations that fed it." -- Publisher's description
- Subject
- Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Since 1945
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Diplomatic history
- Statesmen > United States > Biography
- HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy
- United States > Foreign relations > 1963-1969
- United States > Foreign relations > 1969-1974
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The apprentice, 1965-1969 -- The lone cowboy, 1969 -- "Bold moves, 1970" -- The standstill cease-fire, 1970-1971 -- A war for peace, January 1-August 31, 1972 -- Peace is at hand, September 1972-January 1973.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9506
- ISBN
- 9781610397025
- 1610397029
- 1610397037
- 9781610397032
- LCCN
- 2018020856
- OCLC
- 1049575045
- Author
- Brigham, Robert K. (Robert Kendall), 1960- author.
- Title
- Reckless : Henry Kissinger and the tragedy of Vietnam / Robert K. Brigham.
- Publisher
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1945
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781610397032
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9506