Grand Delusion America's Descent into Vietnam

"THE PRESIDENCY RAMPANT would have been a suitable title for Robert Mann's massive new history of the war, perhaps with the subtitle "Domestic Politics and America's War in Vietnam." [Mann's] title...fails to adequately convey what the book is about....Too bad. The principal focus of the book--and its real contribution--is the close scrutiny it gives to the executive-legislative relationship vis-a-vis Indochina from Truman through Ford. Rather than the phonebook-size tome of 800-plus pages that emerged, Mann might have given us a more tightly focused, more compelling book of about half that length."Mann, Robert is the author of 'Grand Delusion America's Descent into Vietnam' with ISBN 9780465043705 and ISBN 0465043704.