Lessons in Leadership: Learning From Failures in Presidential Decision-Making

Lessons in Leadership:
Learning From Failures in Presidential Decision-Making

Gordon M. Goldstein
Author, Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

Wednesday, March 17th | 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Credit Suisse
11 Madison Avenue, 27th Floor
(entrance on the corner of 24th Street and Park Avenue)
New York

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Recently making the rounds of the unofficial White House book club, Gordon Goldstein's book, "Lessons of Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam," covers a critical period of American foreign policy.  While most of us missed the Vietnam War, the essential lessons of America's involvement are relevant in light of the recent debates about escalation of troop levels in Afghanistan and the exit strategy in Iraq.

The book is based on Goldstein's collaboration with one of the key architects and most passionate advocates of the Vietnam War, McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.  It draws on his research and access to Bundy, who in the last few years of his life, began a retrospective of the mistakes made in the decision-making process.  Please join YPFP New York on Wednesday, March 17 from 7-8:30 pm  for a discussion of the book, the lessons President Obama may have learned from it and how we can understand the decisions presidents face in going to war.

Gordon M. Goldstein

Gordon M. Goldstein is a scholar of international affairs who has served as an international security adviser to the Strategic Planning Unit of the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General and as a Wayland Fellow and guest lecturer at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He received his BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in political science and international relations from Columbia University, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Brooklyn, New York.