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The Road Not Taken

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)

A New York Times bestseller, this "epic and elegant" biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.

Praised as a "superb scholarly achievement" (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot's role as a "master chronicler" (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy to "restore a sense of proportion" to this "political Svengali, or 'Lawrence of Asia' "(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American, pioneered a "hearts and minds" diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in Vietnam. Bringing a tragic complexity to Lansdale and a nuanced analysis to his visionary foreign policy, Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened.

With contemporary reverberations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, The Road Not Taken is a "judicious and absorbing" (New York Times Book Review) biography of lasting historical consequence.


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Publisher: Liveright
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Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 9, 2018

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780871409430
  • File size: 43223 KB
  • Release date: January 9, 2018

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780871409430
  • File size: 42646 KB
  • Release date: January 9, 2018

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)

A New York Times bestseller, this "epic and elegant" biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.

Praised as a "superb scholarly achievement" (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot's role as a "master chronicler" (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy to "restore a sense of proportion" to this "political Svengali, or 'Lawrence of Asia' "(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American, pioneered a "hearts and minds" diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in Vietnam. Bringing a tragic complexity to Lansdale and a nuanced analysis to his visionary foreign policy, Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened.

With contemporary reverberations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, The Road Not Taken is a "judicious and absorbing" (New York Times Book Review) biography of lasting historical consequence.


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Liveright

    Awards:

    Kindle Book
    Release date: January 9, 2018

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780871409430
    File size: 43223 KB
    Release date: January 9, 2018

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780871409430
    File size: 42646 KB
    Release date: January 9, 2018

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
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