It takes the average reader 6 hours and 37 minutes to read The Irony of Vietnam by Leslie H. Gelb
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Few analysts of U.S. involvement in Vietnam would agree with the provocative conclusion of this book. The thesis of most postmortems is that the United States lost the war because of the failure of its foreign policy decisionmaking system. According to Gelb and Betts, however, the foreign policy failed, but the decisionmaking system worked. They attribute this paradox to the efficiency of the system in sustaining an increasingly heavy commitment based on the shared conviction of six administrations that the United States must prevent the loss of Vietnam to communism. However questionable the...
The Irony of Vietnam by Leslie H. Gelb is 387 pages long, and a total of 99,459 words.
This makes it 131% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 3 minutes to read The Irony of Vietnam aloud.
The Irony of Vietnam is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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