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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam cover

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

Max Boot

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#2608 of 3,809 books · #933 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2019).

The Road Not Taken was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography) and a New York Times bestseller. 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". 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 profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.

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Publisher
Liveright Publishing
ISBN-13
9780871409430
Topics
Vietnam WarEdward LansdaleU.S. foreign policy

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