Road to Vietnam

Road to Vietnam

Roots of War, by Richard J. Barnet. New York: Atheneum. 350 pp.

In his latest book, Richard Barnet, codirector of the Institute for Policy Studies, continues his examination of U.S. foreign policy, specifically “the roots of a generation of war” and the forces in U.S. society that have pushed this country into a series of military interventions. His premise is that only deeply entrenched forces would make the country persist in the disastrous Vietnam policy long be...


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