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ABDO A. ELKHOLY De Kalb...
...respectfully submit that Holden Caulfield is not "pushing 40" for the same reason that Hamlet is not pushing 400. Both of these "mixed-up kids" have something to say to all ages, as evidenced by their up." faithful following; they will never "grow EDWARD MC INTYRE De Kalb...
ROOTS OF INVOLVEMENT: THE U.S. IN ASIA 1784-1971 by Marvin Kalb and Elie Abel. 336 pages. Norton...
...accomplishment of Roots of Involvement is to record, in cool temper and spare style, how that hodgepodge developed into the Viet Nam War. The authors are Marvin Kalb, CBS diplomatic correspondent, and Elie Abel, his former NBC rival, now dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. They have combined scholarship legwork to construct this useful chronology. They also offer a thesis: that the Viet Nam War is not an aberration but part of the "inexorable progression" of past misconceptions and blunders, including the desire to bolster France, the general goal of containing Communism, and finally a specific fear...
Still, as Kalb and Abel also demonstrate, the war that no President wanted might have been averted. There were moments in all the post-World War II Administrations when some official wisdom might have saved Lyndon Johnson -not to mention the U.S. and Vietnamese peoples-from the results of the decision to intervene with combat divisions...