Because Our Fathers Lied

from The Living and the Dead

Nonfiction, History, Military, Vietnam War, Asian, Biography & Memoir, Political
Cover of the book Because Our Fathers Lied by Paul Hendrickson, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Paul Hendrickson ISBN: 9780525562399
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: August 8, 2017
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Paul Hendrickson
ISBN: 9780525562399
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: August 8, 2017
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Robert S. McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was.
 
In his insightful, morally devastating book, The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes Robert S. McNamara's story with those of a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect. This is the brilliant, emotional coda where, in meticulous yet compassionate prose, Hendrickson captures his chase after the story of the man and the haunted years of McNamara’s life after Vietnam.
 
A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.

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Robert S. McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was.
 
In his insightful, morally devastating book, The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes Robert S. McNamara's story with those of a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect. This is the brilliant, emotional coda where, in meticulous yet compassionate prose, Hendrickson captures his chase after the story of the man and the haunted years of McNamara’s life after Vietnam.
 
A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.

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