TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preston,Andrew
TI  - The war council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam 
SN  - 9780674056800
AV  - DS558 .W373 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Bundy, McGeorge.
KW  - National Security Council (U.S.)
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The mentor: Stimson's influence on Bundy-- A foreign office in microcosm: creating the National Security Adviser and re-creating the NSC staff --; Learning to fear the bomb: Kennedy's crises and the origins of detente --; The hawk: Rostow and the first attempt at Americanization --; The soft hawk: Forrestal and nonmilitary escalation --; Bundy the adviser: the drift to war --; Bundy the advocate: the rush to war --; Bundy ambivalent: rolling thunder, student unrest, and the decision to commit troops --; Bundy resilient: the bombing pause and the continuing search for a successful policy --; Legacies; 2; b
N2  - "Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? Historians have long assumed that ideological views and the momentum of events made American intervention inevitable. By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council, Andrew Preston demonstrates that policymakers escalated the conflict in Vietnam in the face of internal opposition, external pressures, and a continually failing strategy." "In challenging the prevailing view of Bundy as a loyal but quietly doubting warrior, Preston also revises our understanding of what it meant - and means - to be a hawk or a dove. The War Council is a story with two inseparable themes: the acquisition and consolidation of power; and how that power is exercised."--Jacket
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