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2. I have not seen the Ken Burns special yet,

but I would also recommend anyone interested read "A Grand Delusion", by Robert Mann. It is a history of the political background of the war: why various Presidential Administrations felt the need to get involved in such a remote location. It includes a lot about the major political figures of the time, at least in regard to their stance on the war.

I grew up reading histories of the Vietnam war and other wars. "A Grand Delusion" was an eye-opener since it did not focus at all on the actual fighting of the war, but rather on what question of why the war happened at all.