[Rarebooks] FS: William Bundy's set of THE PENTAGON PAPERS

[Charles Agvent]

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. [THE PENTAGON PAPERS] UNITED STATES-VIETNAM

RELATIONS    1945-1967.  12  volumes.   William  Bundy's   copy   with

annotations..  Washington:  Government  Printing  Office  1971.  First

Edition.  Twelve quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") volumes in original printed

brown  wraps  of the official government publication, popularly  known

as  THE PENTAGON PAPERS, collecting the 43 declassified volumes of the

Department  of Defense's 1968 study in 47 volumes (the last 4  volumes

had   not  yet  been  declassified   because  they  dealt  with  peace

negotiations  and  the release of prisoners of war). Illustrated  with

charts,  diagrams,  and maps. William Bundy's copy with his  scattered

annotations.  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." First published by the New York Times in June of

1971,  these  volumes represented something of a personal  defeat  for

Bundy  who at the time had an 1100-page unfinished manuscript in which

he  selectively  paraphrased from classifed papers in  his  possession

and  which  was  rendered  unpublishable by the  appearance  of  these

volumes. Near Fine                                            $2500.00

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