Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam

Though many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam, no historian has been able to fully explain why the stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations got Vietnam so terribly wrong.

In Road to Disaster, Brian VanDeMark draws upon two decades of research, exclusive interviews, previously unheard recordings, as well as recent findings in cognitive science and organizational theory to explain why the "best and brightest" were so blind to their own errors - and why today's leaders keep repeating their mistakes.