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Conversations: Reevaluating Robert McNamara, w/ Philip and William Taubman

Conversations: Reevaluating Robert McNamara, w/ Philip and William Taubman

Update: 2025-10-20
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Peter is joined by Philip Taubman and William Taubman, two esteemed brothers whose combined expertise in journalism, history, and biography has produced some of the most insightful works on Cold War-era figures and events. Philip is a longtime New York Times national security correspondent, while William earned the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful biography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. In their latest collaborative effort, McNamara at War: A New History, they draw on newly discovered diaries and untapped sources to paint a revelatory portrait of Robert S. McNamara—from his efficiency-driven rise at Ford and the Pentagon to the moral reckonings of the Vietnam War and his later years.  

 

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Conversations: Reevaluating Robert McNamara, w/ Philip and William Taubman

Conversations: Reevaluating Robert McNamara, w/ Philip and William Taubman