America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War

The first major study of the man who pushed two presidents into Vietnam.

"A book that vividly illuminates the dangers of ideology in foreign policy, America's Rasputin could not be more timely." —John Gray, author of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

Walt Rostow's meteoric rise to power—from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to the West Wing of the White House—seemed to capture the promise of the American dream. Hailing from humble origins, Rostow became an intellectual powerhouse: a...