{"product_id":"9781610397025","title":"Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis disturbing new account of Henry Kissinger shows how the most important architect of US foreign policy in the last 60 years was in fact a blundering, self-serving man who led America to tragedy and Vietnam to waste in an unnecessarily dragged-out, ill-conceived war.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 under the terms of a truce that were effectively identical to terms available to the Nixon administration four years earlier. Those four years cost America billions of dollars and over 35,000 war deaths and casualties. Over 300,000 Vietnamese died during those four years as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most important voice in the Nixon White House on American foreign policy was that of Henry Kissinger. Using newly available archival material from the Nixon Presidential Library and Kissinger's personal papers, Robert K. Brigham shows how Kissinger's approach to Vietnam was driven by personal political rivalries and strategic confusion, both of which extended the war unnecessarily. Brigham also reveals how domestic politics had an outsized influence on Kissinger's so-called strategy; there was no great master plan or Bismarckian theory that supported how the US continued the war or conducted peace negotiations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a result, a distant tragedy was perpetuated, forever changing both countries. Now, perhaps for the first time, we can see the full scale of that tragedy and the machinations that fed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036535701744,"sku":"9781610397025","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610397025_p0.jpg?v=1763840181","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610397025","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}