The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War.(Review)(Brief Article)

The Historian | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. By Paul Hendrickson. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Pp. 427. $27.50.)

Paul Hendrickson, a feature writer for the Washington Post, has written a book about former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and the ways in which his decisions altered the lives of four others: Marine Lance Corporal James Farley, crew chief on a helicopter based at Danang, whose picture appeared in Life in March 1965; Norman Morrison, the Quaker pacifist who burned himself to death outside of the Pentagon in November ...

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