Robert McNamara and the Vietnam War: A Reading List

For many Americans, the news of Robert McNamara's death at age 93 on July 6th brought back the whole cascade of difficult memories about what the war in Vietnam meant to this country.

Here is McNamara's New York Times obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?hp

But for many others, especially younger Americans, the Vietnam War has fallen into the "black hole" of American History and is as remote as the Peloponnesian War. For them and anyone else who needs a refresher course o