[Rarebooks] FS: General William Westmoreland's Report on Vietnam Inscribed to a chief architect of the Vietnam Conflict, William Bundy

[Charles Agvent]

 From our list of New Arrivals for the Fall which will be posted to our 
web site next week.  The list includes other books from William Bundy's 
library including his annotated copy of The Pentagon Papers as well as 
associated Vietnam Conflict material, a long run of books from the 
Rivers of America series, fine leatherbound sets of Twain and others, 
and miscellaneous fine items.

  WESTMORELAND,  William. REPORT ON THE WAR IN VIETNAM (AS
         OF 30 JUNE  1968).  Inscribed  by   William  Westmoreland  to
         William  Bundy.  (Washington): (Government  Printing  Office)
         [1969].  First  Edition. SECTION I: REPORT ON AIR  AND  NAVAL
         CAMPAIGNS....;  SECTION  II:  REPORT ON OPERATIONS  IN  SOUTH
         VIETNAM.  Illustrated  with  photographs  and  color  folding
         maps. INSCRIBED  by  General William Westmoreland to  William
         Bundy and    dated  March  1969:   "To-   Bill   Bundy--/With
         appreciation  of your/valued assistance and/counsel./Westy/W.
         C. Westmoreland."    Westmoreland  was   commander  of   U.S.
         military  operations  in Vietnam from 1964 - 1968 and  played
         an aggressive  role  in  the escalation of ground  troops  in
         Vietnam.  William Bundy had a long, distinguished service  in
         the government  in the CIA and in the Defense Department.  He
         was appointed  Assistant  Secretary of State for Far  Eastern
         Affairs  in  March  1964. His brother  McGeorge  was  Special
         Assistant  for  National  Security  Affairs  to  Kennedy  and
         Johnson    from  1961-1966.  Both   are  considered   primary
         architects  of America's involvement in Vietnam. In THE  BEST
         AND THE  BRIGHTEST,  David Halberstam stated that during  the
         Kennedy  and  Johnson administrations, William  Bundy's  name
         "would  probably  be  on more pieces of  paper  dealing  with
         Vietnam  over a seven-year period than anyone else's." A fine
         association  copy linking two important figures in  America's
         Vietnam  policy in a book that looks at the conflict  through
         the same  distorted,  rose-colored  lenses that  the  current
         administration   views  the  problems   in  Iraq.  Near  Fine
                                                              $1500.00

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