Arthur Schlesinger 2x Pulitzer Winner THE BITTER HERITAGE 1967 1st PB Red Edges
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Arthur Schlesinger 2x Pulitzer Winner THE BITTER HERITAGE 1967 1st PB Red Edges. The "Politics of Inadvertence": He famously argues that the U.S. drifted into the war "step by step," with each president making small decisions that they thought were safe, only to find the next president even more trapped. Check out our store category 'American Politics & Power' for more titles like this! Add multiple books to your cart to see automatic volume discounts and combined shipping rates applied at checkout." This book is a critique of how the United States got stuck in the Vietnam War. Schlesinger, who had worked in the White House, wrote it at the height of the conflict to explain that America didn't enter the war through a grand master plan, but rather through a series of small, accidental steps. Here are the three main things he argues: The "Politics of Inadvertence": He famously argues that the U.S. drifted into the war "step by step," with each president making small decisions that they thought were safe, only to find the next president even more trapped. Military vs. Political: He believed the war couldn't be won with just more bombs and soldiers. He argued that the conflict was fundamentally a Vietnamese political struggle that the U.S. didn't fully understand. The Threat to Democracy: He was worried that the stress of the war, the secrecy of the government, and the divisions it caused at home were starting to damage American democratic values. Even though it’s a history book, it was very controversial at the time because it came from a "Washington insider" who was telling the public that the government had basically lost its way.
