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 What people are saying about Haunting Legacy

"What a terrific book!"

— Lesley Stahl, correspondent for 60 Minutes


"This is great narrative history and biography combined to create informative case studies."

— Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute


"Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb’s account of this phenomenon is studiously researched, vividly narrated, and, above all, highly readable. It will stand as a major contribution to the subject."

— Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History and winner of the Pulitzer Prize

 

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Equal parts taut history, revealing biography & cautionary tale

Haunting Legacy was published in 2011 by the Brookings Institution Press. The revised 2012 paperback edition is now available.Haunting Legacy is must reading for anyone trying to understand the power of the past to influence war-and-peace decisions of the present, and of the future.

In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb presents a compelling, accessible, and hugely important history of presidential decisionmaking on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? Might America again be sucked into an unwinnable conflict, for example? Does a president always need congressional approval, or can the White House act on its own?

Haunting Legacy

Cloth Trade, 300 pages  $29.95 

Also available as a paperback and eBook.

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