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America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War

The product of seven years of research and writing, this 320-page book is the first biography of Walt Rostow, a key foreign policy adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Informed by research in seven archives across the U.S., supported by visiting fellowships at Yale University and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, New York City, the book was reviewed to acclaim in over thirty outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The Nation, Diplomatic History, and the American Historical Review. It attempts to establish a new causal link between the economic determinism present in ‘modernization theory’ and U.S. tactics in Vietnam.