The Limits of Intervention: How Vietnam Policy was Made--and Reversed--During the Johnson Administration

“Far and away the most illuminating account we have of the people and policies that led the United States into the Vietnam catastrophe. . . .A significant contribution to the history of our times.” —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. How the war in Vietnam came to represent the outer limits of feasible American intervention, how the working of the democratic process finally forced President Johnson to abandon a policy of escalation, and why the particular events of March 1968 signaled the end of an er...