Classic Showbiz Clangers: An Amusing Collection of Showbiz's Most Embarrassing Moments from Over a Century (Classic Clangers)

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The old saying that "what can go wrong, probably will go wrong" is always lurking in the minds of showbiz folk. Louis B. Mayer probably never forgave himself for passing up the rights to Mickey Mouse, and Hugh Grant must have regretted the unexpected audience that showed up for his late-night encounter with Divine Brown. But the show must go on, despite inebriation, adultery, shoplifting, stage fright, villainy, sartorial disaster, or just being stuck in the ladies room at the very moment they decide to give you an award.

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Vietnam the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict

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One of America's leading intellectuals presents a startling and controversial thesis: that Vietnam was the right war at the right time, with the wrong military strategy. He also argues that the Cold War was the Third World War, with Korea, Indochina and Afghanistan among its major campaigns.

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What went wrong in Vietnam?

Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestseller.

In this groundgreaking reinterpretation of America's most disatrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes enduring myths and put the Vietnam War in its proper context -- as part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lind reveals the deep cultural divisions within the United States that made the Cold War consensus so fragile and explains how and why American public support for the war in Indochina declined. Even more stunning is his provacative argument that the United States failed in Vietnam because the military establishment did not adapt to the demands of what before 1968 had been largely a guerrilla war.

In an era when the United States often finds itself embroiled in prolonged and difficult conflicts in places like Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, and Iraq, Lind offers a sobering cautionary tale to Ameicans of all political viewpoints.

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