No more Vietnams? The war and the future of American foreign policy. Contributors: Eqbal Ahmad [and others] Edited by Richard M. Pfeffer.

Contributor Ahmad, Eqbal.

Edition Statement:[1st ed.]

Imprint:New York : Published for the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs by Harper & Row, [1968]

Descriptionx, 299 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Contributors to the conference are current and former government officials, scholars with relevant expertise, and journalists : Eqbal Ahmad, Richard J. Barnet, Chester Cooper, Theodore Draper, Luigi Einaudi, Daniel Ellsberg, John King Fairbank, Frances FitzGerald, Col. Fred Haynes, Stanley Hoffmann, Samuel P. Huntington, George McTurnan Kahin, Henry Kissinger, John McDermottt, Hans Morgenthau, Richard M. Pfeffer, William R. Polk, Ithiel De Sola Pool, Edwin Reischauer, John E. Reilly, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Sir Robert Thompson, James C. Thomson, Jr., Leroy Wehrle, Albert Wohlstetter, Adam Yarmolinsky.

Note:Preface by William R. Polk -- I. Prologue: history as a teacher -- II. The roots of misconception: American national character -- The world of the 1960s -- American political and bureaucratic decision-making -- III. Vietnam: misconceptions in action: The intellectual failure -- A democracy intervenes -- The strategy of intervention -- IV. Epilogue: The lessons of Vietnam: The world of the 1970s -- Intervention and the future of American foreign policy: Criteria for the future ; The purposes and methods of intervention ; A low posture: isolation, interventionism, and baloney.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

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