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I heard that Steve Bannon has been given greef for reading this book. Why would people give someone in the Trump adm. greef in the press for reading books ???

Ellen This book came up in Fire and Fury, the Michael Wolff book about the Administration that I am reading now. I can't say for sure who is giving Bannon g…moreThis book came up in Fire and Fury, the Michael Wolff book about the Administration that I am reading now. I can't say for sure who is giving Bannon grief for reading it, but by Wolff's account, Bannon considered it either a how-to manual for government or an indictment of ALL bureaucracy and establishment politics. (I don't think was the spirit in which Halberstam intended his account, but I haven't read it yet so I couldn't say for sure. My impression is that it's a more specific critique than that.) (less)

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This book states the futility of the US effort to win Politically and Militarily the Vietnam war, any one knows of another book witch the winnable side is argued for?

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