<p>John F. Kennedy predicted that Scotty Thompson would be President some day. Before he was 30 he had won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, published several books, begun a promising academic and public career, and married the handsome and wealthy daughter of an elder statesman. At 40, from a tenured university professorship he got his first sub-cabinet job in Washington. Between the cup and the lip of fulfillment his world of power and riches fell apart: he could no longer hold back his gay secret. So he came out, joining what is still the most despised minority. Against the most formidable odds - powerful people opposing him to protect their own deeply guarded similar secret, defeating him for position on grounds of his homosexuality - he put his life back together: with his children, with his lovers, and finally as the first openly gay presidential appointee.</p>

The Price of Achievement: Coming Out in Reagan Days (The Cassell Lesbian and Gay Studies)

LGBTQ+ Books

Thompson, W. Scott

Biographies & Memoirs

UNKNO

This autobiography by W. Scott Thompson, former top aide in the Reagan presidency, describes the consequences of his "coming out" as a gay Republican. It provides an analysis of current social-political debates on gay issues - on outing, civil rights reform, child custody and gay marriage.

The Price of Achievement: Coming Out in the Reagan Days

History

World

Cassell

<p>THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM is an important turning point in America's evaluation of its Vietnam experience. It is the first retrospective, critical examination of the war by a group of statesmen and generals who were themselves prominent in the planning and execution of the war. In papers commissioned for this extraordinary project, and in discussions as they met face-to-face, the causes of the failure of the Americans and South Vietnamese to achieve their goals are considered analytically and candidly. Neither a self-serving memoir nor a carping diatribe from the outside, the study has been organized thematically to incorporate both commissioned papers and a hard-hitting discussion. Problems of Vietnamization, the psychological climate in which the war was conducted, the role of technological innovation in weaponry, and difficulties in force management were examined by the contributors. THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM seeks to analyze the war as it was fought without entering into a discussion of the foreign policy assumptions and premises which provided its underpinning. The inevitability of failure and the possibility that success could have been achieved by conducting the war in a markedly different way are also examined. And, in one astonishing exchange, a systems analyst is challenged by an Air force Intelligence Chief who maintains that war is an art form, not amenable to the style of management derived from the method of data collection established, he purports, by the MacNamara System. Everyone concerned with thoughtful examination of America's most significant foreign policy adventure of the mid-twentieth century should read THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM.</p>

Lessons of Vietnam

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Crane, Russak & Co.

Third World: Premises of U.S.Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

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