02743cam a2200349 i 4500 445971858 TxAuBib 20180124120000.0 170731s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2017046061 9780871409416 0871409410 rda sc sm SKYRV TxAuBib rda Boot, Max, 1968- The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam / Max Boot. Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam. First Edition. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018] L, 717 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue: The day of the dead: Saigon, November 1-2, 1963 -- Introduction: The misunderstood man -- Ad man (1908-1945) -- Colonel Landslide (1945-1954) -- National builder (1954-1956) -- Washington warrior (1957-1963) -- Bastard child (1964-1968) -- The beaten man (1968-1987) -- Afterword: Landalism in the twenty-first century. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908 1́987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greeneś The Quiet American, best-selling historian Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a h́earts and mind d́iplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was ultimately crushed by Americaś giant military bureaucracy, steered by elitist generals and blueblood diplomats who favored troop build-ups and napalm bombs over winning the trust of the people. Through dozens of interviews and access to neverbefore-seen documentsíncluding long-hidden love lettersB́oot recasts this cautionary American story, tracing the bold rise and the crashing fall of the roguish T́. E. Lawrence of Asia f́rom the battle of Dien Bien Phu to the humiliating American evacuation in 1975. Bringing a tragic complexity to this so-called úgly American, t́his éngrossing biography (́Karl Marlantes) rescues Lansdale from historical ignominy and suggests that Vietnam could have been different had we only listened. 20180124. Lansdale, Edward Geary 1908-1987. United States Central Intelligence Agency Officials and employees Biography. Intelligence officers United States Biography. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. Biographies.