The acclaimed portrait of McGeorge and William Bundy, two brothers who served as architects of American policy during the Cold War and Vietnam--"a darkly dramatic story, told with sensitivity and political passion, of pride, power, privilege, hubris, and idealism" (Ronald Steel, "The Washington Post"). of photos.
The acclaimed portrait of McGeorge and William Bundy, two brothers who served as architects of American policy during the Cold War and Vietnam--"a darkly dramatic story, told with sensitivity and political passion, of pride, power, privilege, hubris, and idealism" (Ronald Steel, "The Washington Post"). of photos.
Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and journalist. With Martin J. Sherwin, he won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2006 for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning Best Picture, Oppenheimer. Bird is Executive Director and Distinguished Lecturer at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History and is the recipient of numerous fellowships. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.
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Contents Introduction 1 Harvey Hollister Bundy: The Patriarch 2 Groton: A Very Expensive Education 3 Yale: The "Great Blue Mother" 4 The War Years, 1941-1945 5 Stimson's Scribe 6 Portrait of a Young Policy Intellectual, 1948-1953 7 Dean Bundy of Harvard, 1953-1960 8 William Bundy and the CIA, 1951-1960 9 The Kennedy Years 10 The Cuban Missile Crisis 11 Autumn Assassinations 12 LBJ and Vietnam, 1964 13 Vietnam: The Decision, 1965 14 Vietnam Quagmire, 1966-1969 15 The Ford Foundation 16 Vietnam Aftermath Notes Interviews Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
Contents Introduction 1 Harvey Hollister Bundy: The Patriarch 2 Groton: A Very Expensive Education 3 Yale: The "Great Blue Mother" 4 The War Years, 1941-1945 5 Stimson's Scribe 6 Portrait of a Young Policy Intellectual, 1948-1953 7 Dean Bundy of Harvard, 1953-1960 8 William Bundy and the CIA, 1951-1960 9 The Kennedy Years 10 The Cuban Missile Crisis 11 Autumn Assassinations 12 LBJ and Vietnam, 1964 13 Vietnam: The Decision, 1965 14 Vietnam Quagmire, 1966-1969 15 The Ford Foundation 16 Vietnam Aftermath Notes Interviews Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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