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With Honor: Melvin Laird by Dale Van Atta (2008) Hardcover, NEU
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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Topic
- Political Process / General, United States / 20th Century, Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Presidents & Heads of State, Political
- Region
- World
- Title
- With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace & Politics
- Subjects
- Politics & Society
- Age Level
- Adults
- Special Attributes
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- ISBN
- 9780299226800
- Book Title
- With Honor : Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.7 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Item Weight
- 36.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 664 Pages
Über dieses Produkt
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299226808
ISBN-13
9780299226800
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64048817
Product Key Features
Book Title
With Honor : Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics
Number of Pages
664 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Political Process / General, United States / 20th Century, Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Presidents & Heads of State, Political
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
36.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-040159
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Historians, journalists, and other observers have become so entangled in debates about Kennedy and Johnson in the 1960s, and Nixon and Kissinger in the 1970s, that they have neglected the formidable role of Melvin Laird. This clearly written biography will rectify that oversight."- Jeremi Suri, author ofHenry Kissinger and the American Century, "Historians, journalists, and other observers have become so entangled in debates about Kennedy and Johnson in the 1960s, and Nixon and Kissinger in the 1970s, that they have neglected the formidable role of Melvin Laird. This clearly written biography will rectify that oversight."-- Jeremi Suri, author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century, "Of all the Cabinet officers who served in the first Nixon term, Mel Laird . . . was the most underestimated."-President Jimmy Carter , "Historians, journalists, and other observers have become so entangled in debates about Kennedy and Johnson in the 1960s, and Nixon and Kissinger in the 1970s, that they have neglected the formidable role of Melvin Laird. This clearly written biography will rectify that oversight."-- Jeremi Suri, author of "Henry Kissinger and the American Century", "Watching Laird operate, I sometimes wondered if Nixon realized what he had gotten when he picked Laird."-- Bob Schieffer, commentator on CBS's Face the Nation, "Watching Laird operate, I sometimes wondered if Nixon realized what he had gotten when he picked Laird."- Bob Schieffer, commentator on CBS's Face the Nation, "Watching Laird operate, I sometimes wondered if Nixon realized what he had gotten when he picked Laird."- Bob Schieffer, commentator on CBS'sFace the Nation, "Of all the Cabinet officers who served in the first Nixon term, Mel Laird . . . was the most underestimated."--President Jimmy Carter, "Historians, journalists, and other observers have become so entangled in debates about Kennedy and Johnson in the 1960s, and Nixon and Kissinger in the 1970s, that they have neglected the formidable role of Melvin Laird. This clearly written biography will rectify that oversight."- Jeremi Suri, author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century, "Of all the Cabinet officers who served in the first Nixon term, Mel Laird . . . was the most underestimated."--President Jimmy Carter
Dewey Decimal
355.6092 B
Synopsis
National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Memoir Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman--Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain she experienced living as the "wrong" gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after forty-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real. Ladin's poignant memoir takes us from the death of living as the man she knew she wasn't, to the shattering of family and career that accompanied her transition, to the new self, relationships, and love she finds when she opens the door of life., In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Congressman Melvin Laird (R-WI) agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the American public--but as he later said, "Nixon couldn't find anybody else who wanted the damn job." For the next four years, Laird deftly navigated the morass of the war he had inherited. Lampooned as a "missile head," but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he doggedly pursued his program of Vietnamization, initiating the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel and gradually ceding combat responsibilities to South Vietnam. In fighting to bring the troops home faster, pressing for more humane treatment of POWs, and helping to end the draft, Laird employed a powerful blend of disarming Midwestern candor and Washington savvy, as he sought a high moral road bent on Nixon's oft-stated (and politically instrumental) goal of peace with honor. The first book ever to focus on Laird's legacy, this authorized biography reveals his central and often unrecognized role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War--and the challenges, ethical and political, that confronted him along the way. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Laird, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, and numerous others, author Dale Van Atta offers a sympathetic portrait of a man striving for open government in an atmosphere fraught with secrecy. Van Atta illuminates the inner workings of high politics: Laird's behind-the-scenes sparring with Kissinger over policy, his decisions to ignore Nixon's wilder directives, his formative impact on arms control and health care, his key role in the selection of Ford forvice president, his frustration with the country's abandonment of Vietnamization, and, in later years, his unheeded warning to Donald Rumsfeld that "it's a helluva lot easier to get into a war than to get out of one.", In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Congressman Melvin Laird (R-WI) agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the American public--but as he later said, "Nixon couldn't find anybody else who wanted the damn job." For the next four years, Laird deftly navigated the morass of the war he had inherited. Lampooned as a "missile head," but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he doggedly pursued his program of Vietnamization, initiating the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel and gradually ceding combat responsibilities to South Vietnam. In fighting to bring the troops home faster, pressing for more humane treatment of POWs, and helping to end the draft, Laird employed a powerful blend of disarming Midwestern candor and Washington savvy, as he sought a high moral road bent on Nixon's oft-stated (and politically instrumental) goal of peace with honor. The first book ever to focus on Laird's legacy, this authorized biography reveals his central and often unrecognized role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War--and the challenges, ethical and political, that confronted him along the way. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Laird, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, and numerous others, author Dale Van Atta offers a sympathetic portrait of a man striving for open government in an atmosphere fraught with secrecy. Van Atta illuminates the inner workings of high politics: Laird's behind-the-scenes sparring with Kissinger over policy, his decisions to ignore Nixon's wilder directives, his formative impact on arms control and health care, his key role in the selection of Ford for vice president, his frustration with the country's abandonment of Vietnamization, and, in later years, his unheeded warning to Donald Rumsfeld that "it's a helluva lot easier to get into a war than to get out of one.", This authorized biography reveals Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's central and often unrecognized role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War--and the challenges, ethical and political, that confronted him along the way., In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Congressman Melvin Laird (R-WI) agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the American public--but as he later said, "Nixon couldn't find anybody else who wanted the damn job." For the next four years, Laird deftly navigated the morass of the war he had inherited. Lampooned as a "missile head," but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he doggedly pursued his program of Vietnamization, initiating the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel and gradually ceding combat responsibilities to South Vietnam. In fighting to bring the troops home faster, pressing for more humane treatment of POWs, and helping to end the draft, Laird employed a powerful blend of disarming Midwestern candor and Washington savvy, as he sought a high moral road bent on Nixon's oft-stated (and politically instrumental) goal of peace with honor. The first book ever to focus on Laird's legacy, this authorized biography reveals his central and often unrecognized role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War--and the challenges, ethical and political, that confronted him along the way. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Laird, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, and numerous others, author Dale Van Atta offers a sympathetic portrait of a man striving for open government in an atmosphere fraught with secrecy. Van Atta illuminates the inner workings of high politics: Laird's behind-the-scenes sparring with Kissinger over policy, his decisions to ignore Nixon's wilder directives, his formative impact on arms control and health care, his key role in the selection of Ford for vice president, his frustration with the country's abandonment of Vietnamization, and, in later years, his unheeded warning to Donald Rumsfeld that "it's a helluva lot easier to get into a war than to get out of one." Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association
LC Classification Number
E840.8.L25V36 2004
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