The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms
by Kai Bird
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"Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in his revelatory look at Bundy and his brother William, two of the most influential policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It is a portrait of fiercely patriotic, brilliant and brazenly self-confident men who directed a steady escalation of a war they did not believe could be won. Bird draws on seven years of research, nearly one show more hundred interviews, and scores of still-classified top secret documents in a masterful reevaluation of America's actions throughout the Cold War and Vietnam. show lessTags
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Kai Bird is the Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography and an award-winning historian and journalist. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA.
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- McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 973.92 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- Cold War, Vietnam War, Digital Age (1953-2001)
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- E840.6 .B57 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 Biography (General)
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