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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)
A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.
Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot’s role as a “master chronicler” (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy to “restore a sense of proportion” to this “political Svengali, or ‘Lawrence of Asia’ ”(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, pioneered a “hearts and minds” diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in Vietnam. Bringing a tragic complexity to Lansdale and a nuanced analysis to his visionary foreign policy, Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened.
With contemporary reverberations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, The Road Not Taken is a “judicious and absorbing” (New York Times Book Review) biography of lasting historical consequence.
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“Lansdale’s story is relevant today, because he was a key figure in the debate over how and how not to use military force to achieve American foreign policy aims…I fervently hope our policy makers read this book.”
— Karl Marlantes, New York Times bestselling author
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“A remarkable piece of work, superbly researched and documented.”
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“Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, brings solid credentials to this enterprise.”
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“An impressive work, an epic and elegant biography based on voluminous archival sources…that takes a seemingly obscure hero and uses his story as a vehicle to capture a whole era.”
— Wall Street Journal -
“Edward Lansdale is probably the greatest cold warrior that most Americans have never heard of…a counterinsurgency expert before the term was even coined.”
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“A probing, timely study of wrong turns in the American conduct of the Vietnam War.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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A New York Times bestseller
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month selection
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Finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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About Max Boot
Max Boot, historian and foreign–policy analyst, is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post. His New York Times bestseller, The Road Not Taken, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
About Henry Strozier
Henry Strozier is an actor with a forty-year career in numerous movies and television series. Also a voice-over artist, he has worked extensively in video games and audiobook narration, earning several AudioFile Earphones Awards.