For a decade, journalist Paul Hendrickson investigated the life of Robert McNamara, the brilliant, technocratic architect of the Vietnam War. Hendrickson became haunted by a man he came to see as blinded by classic American ambition and arrogance. Hendrickson?s McNamara biography--a finalist for the National Book Award--unearths and demystifies the painful yet redemptive ghosts of McNamara's life and the Vietnam War. As Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam wrote, "The Living and the Dead is a remarkable literary and journalistic achievement."
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