{"product_id":"book-cho9","title":"The Road Not Taken","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003ePraised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (\u003cem\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/em\u003e), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot’s role as a “master chronicler” (\u003cem\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/em\u003e) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy to “restore a sense of proportion” to this “political Svengali, or ‘Lawrence of Asia’ ”(\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/em\u003e, pioneered a “hearts and minds” diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in Vietnam. Bringing a tragic complexity to Lansdale and a nuanced analysis to his visionary foreign policy, Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eWith contemporary reverberations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, \u003cem\u003eThe Road Not Taken\u003c\/em\u003e is a “judicious and absorbing” (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) biography of lasting historical consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49382916882736,"sku":"BDcho9","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49382916948272,"sku":"ZEcho9","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49382916981040,"sku":"ZMcho9","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/685961-cho9-Square.jpg?v=1745537290","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cho9","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}