LBJ and McNamara

"In this book, I have sought to blend personal experience, journalism, and scholarship. It is history written by a journalist who was there."- Peter L. W. Osnos LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail  details how President Lyndon B. Johnson and his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, made choices central to U.S. strategy in Vietnam, ending in defeat. The portrait emerges of men who knew that conventional victory was impossible but who could not or would not reverse th