cover image Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam

Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam

Larry Berman. W. W. Norton & Company, $19.95 (276pp) ISBN 978-0-393-30778-8

Berman discusses the reactions of LBJ and his advisors to the failure of military policy in Vietnam, the manipulation of intelligence from the field to portray success and the widening division between the hawks and the doves. ``The portrait of the embattled and unyielding president that emerges is vivid and memorable,'' said PW. Photos. (May)