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Books of Our Time reviews Joining the Club.

Books of Our Time reviews the book, Adventures in the Atomic Age.

Books of Our Time reviews American Irish.

ised military foray into Vietnam.Mann aptly describes how American politics (and the electorate) were drawn into the delusions that characterized U.S. policy in Vietnam.  Delusions were many:  peace was nearly at hand, the domino-effect that would be triggered by a communist takeover, the actual nature of the communist threat, the bombing of North Vietnam, the strategic hamlet program, etc.  With an eye to the future, Mann writes The Vietnam War should be remembered as the kind of tragedy that can result when presidentscaptivated by their grand delusionsenforce their foreign and military policies without the informed support of Congress and the American people.

On this installment of Books of Our TimeHost Dean Lawrence R. Velvel of the Massachusetts School of Law will conduct the interview with Robert Mann. Mann is currently a professor at LSU.  The title of his book is A Grand Delusion: Americas Descent Into Vietnam.  Velvel and Mann also compare Vietnam and Iraq with an eye for similarities in the domestic political landscape.

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Books of our time reviews War is a Force that Gives us Meaning.

Books of our Time reviews the republished book, The Game they Played