{"product_id":"the-living-and-the-dead-robert-mcnamara-and-five-lives-of-a-lost-war-paperback","title":"The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Hendrickson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best and the Brightest and All the President's Men.\"\u003cbr\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than the two presidents he served or the 58,000 soldiers who died for his policies, Robert 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. This brilliantly insightful, morally devastating book tells us why he believed, how he lost faith, and what his deceptions cost five of the war's witnesses and McNamara himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes 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. The result is a book whose exhaustive research and imaginative power turn history into an act of reckoning, damning and profoundly sympathetic, impossible to put down and impossible to forget. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A masterpiece. . . .  Hendrickson] has a gift with language that most writers can only dream about. \"\u003cbr\u003e --Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Approaches Shakespearian tragedy.\" \u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of the Year \u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism \u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best and the Brightest and All the President's Men.\"\u003cbr\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle \u003cbr\u003eMore than the two presidents he served or the 58,000 soldiers who died for his policies, Robert 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. This brilliantly insightful, morally devastating book tells us why he believed, how he lost faith, and what his deceptions cost five of the war's witnesses and McNamara himself. \u003cbr\u003eIn The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes 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. The result is a book whose exhaustive research and imaginative power turn history into an act of reckoning, damning and profoundly sympathetic, impossible to put down and impossible to forget. \u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece. . . . [Hendrickson] has a gift with language that most writers can only dream about. \"\u003cbr\u003e --Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cbr\u003e\"Approaches Shakespearian tragedy.\" \u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Hendrickson\u003c\/b\u003e's book \u003ci\u003eSons of Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades before that he was a staff writer at the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post. \u003c\/i\u003eAmong his other books are \u003ci\u003eLooking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott \u003c\/i\u003e(1992 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and \u003ci\u003eThe Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War\u003c\/i\u003e (1996 finalist for the National Book Award). He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2009 he was a joint visiting professor of documentary practice at Duke University and of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the father of two grown sons and lives with his wife, Cecilia, outside Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 8 x 5.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52030243176749,"sku":"9780679781172","price":22.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/WLtK6cFWpT9780679781172.webp?v=1777506635","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-living-and-the-dead-robert-mcnamara-and-five-lives-of-a-lost-war-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}