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Personal Accounts, Biographies, Oral Histories--A Selected Bibliography

Adams, Sam. War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir. South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 1994.

Aitken, Jonathan. Nixon: A Life. Washington, D. C.: Regnery Gateway, 1994.

Beschloss. Michael. R. Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Bird, Kai. The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Blair, Anne.Lodge in Vietnam : A Patriot Abroad. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995.

Clifford, Clark and Richard C. Holbrooke. Counsel to the President: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1991.

Colby, William E. Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA. New York:Simon & Schuster, 1978.

Colby, William and James McCargar. Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989.

Colvin, John. Giap: Volcano Under Snow. New York: Soho Press, 1996.

Currey, Cecil B. Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American. Washington, D. C. : Brassey's, 1998.

Dallek. Robert. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Duiker, William. Ho Chi Minh. New York: Hyperion, 2000.

Halberstam, David. Ho. New York: Random House, 1971.

Hendrickson, Paul. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. New York: Knopf, 1996.

Isaacson, Walter. Kissinger: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Kissinger, Henry. White House Years. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

_____. Years of Upheaval. Boston, Little, Brown, 1982.

Lacouture, Jean. Ho Chi Minh: A Political Biography. New York: Random House, 1968.

McCain, John and Mark Salter. Faith of My Fathers. New York: Random House, 1999.

McNamara, Robert S. with Brian VanDeMark. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. New York: Times Books, 1995.

Nixon, Richard M. No More Vietnams. New York: Arbor House, 1985.

_____. The Real War. New York: Warner, 1980.

_____. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978.

Nolting, Frederick. From Trust to Tragedy: The Political Memoirs of Frederick Nolting, Kennedy's Ambassador to Diem's Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1988.

Rusk, Dean and Richard Rusk. As I Saw It. New York: Norton, 1990.

Sainteny, Jean. Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam: A Personal Memoir. Chicago: Cowles, 1972.

Shapley, Deborah. Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Snepp, Frank. Mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Nature, Myth, and War in Vietnam. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Timberg, Robert. The Nightingale's Song. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

For additional information, see Wittman, Sandra. Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.

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