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The War Hawk Who Wasn’t
Newly discovered documents reveal Robert McNamara’s private doubts about Vietnam.
by
William Taubman
,
Philip Taubman
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The Atlantic
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September 18, 2025
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McNamara at War
: A New History
William Taubman, Philip Taubman
2025
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An American Reckoning
What lessons can we take from Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War?
by
Ben Rhodes
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New York Review of Books
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February 26, 2026
Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle
In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.
by
Paul Musgrave
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Foreign Policy
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on
November 28, 2019
