NYT Books in Review: “Lessons in Disaster,” “The Great Inflation And Its Aftermath”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Holbrooke-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, by Gordon M. Goldstein

“Toward the end of his life, McGeorge Bundy re-evaluated his advice to President Johnson.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Scheiber-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence, by Robert J. Samuelson

“How government managers encouraged inflation in the 1960s and 1970s and led the American economy into recession.”

 

 

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