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Index
Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Author’s Note: A Word Before We Begin PART ONE
The Decision to Gamble and Hope The Trojans and the Trojan Horse (CA. 1250 BC) George Armstrong Custer and the Little Bighorn (1876) André Maginot and His Line (1930–40) Unsinkability and the Titanic (1912) Isoroku Yamamoto and Pearl Harbor (1941) NASA and the Space Shuttles (1986, 2003)
PART TWO
The Decision to Manipulate William McKinley, the USS Maine, and the Spanish-American War (1898) Captain Alfred Dreyfus and the Honor of France (1894–1906) Edward Bernays and the Campaign to Recruit Women Smokers (1929) Richard M. Nixon and Watergate (1973) Metropolitan Edison and Three Mile Island (1979) Ken Lay and Enron (2001) Dick Cheney and the Iraq War (2003)
PART THREE
The Decision to Leap (Without Looking) King George III and the American Revolution (1775–83) The “War Hawks” and the War of 1812 (1812) John C. Calhoun and Nullification (1832) Russell, Majors, and Waddell and the Pony Express (1860) Count Leopold von Berchtold and His Ultimatum (1914)
PART FOUR
The Decision to Retreat Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and Dred Scott (1857) Thomas Edison and the Fight Against Alternating Current (1893) The Wright Brothers and the Wing Warping Lawsuits (1910–14) Alfred P. Sloan and Planned Obsolescence (1920) Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler (1938) The British Empire and Gandhi (1942)
PART FIVE
The Decision to Destroy Governor Willem Kieft and the “Slaughter of the Innocents” (1643) Antonio López de Santa Anna and the Alamo (1836) Patriotism and Poison Gas (1914–18) Roberto Goizueta and the “New Coke” (1985)
PART SIX
The Decision to Drift James Buchanan and Secession (1860) George Gordon Meade and Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of the Crater (1864) Rasputin and the Russian Royals (1916) Ford Motor Company and the Edsel (1957) John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs (1961) Tonkin Gulf, Persian Gulf (1964, 2003) George W. Bush and Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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