On Active Service in Peace and War

Résumé du livre

"This book contains an account of the years of my public service - my actions, motives, and estimates of results - from my point of view. The writing of the book has been the work of Mr. McGeorge Bundy. Its style and composition are his; but, where he writes of what I have thought and felt, he does so after we have worked together for eighteen months in an earnest effort to make an accurate and balanced account...The result is a record which I believe fully reflects my best judgment of what my public life has been...This book is intended to be a 'pilot biography' - to be written while my memory of important events is still alive - in order to forestall possible biographies written without the careful aid of my papers or myself." -- Introduction.