다찌바나 다카시가 책에서 베트남 전쟁에 대해 재미있게 쓴 책은 압도적으로 이 책이라고 해서 읽어봐야겠다는 생각을 하게 되었습니다. 하지만 <맥나마라 회고록>이라는 책으로 번역된 것이 없었고 도서관에도 물론 한글본이 없었습니다. 그래서 어쩔 수 없이 구글에서 ebook으로 구매했습니다. 비록 영어로 읽어야 하지만 구글에서는 한글본과 비교가 안될 정도의 다양한 분야의 책을 손쉽게 ebook으로 구매해 읽을 수 있습니다.
1) She enriched the lives of all who knew her, and she brought me strength and joy as we journeyed through forty years of life together.
13) The ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote, "The reward of suffering is experience." Let this be the lasting legacy of Vietnam.
16) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
19) And my mathematics professors taught me to see math as a process of thought- a language in which to express much, but certainly not all, of human activity.
It was a revelation. To this day, I see quantification as a language to add precision to reasoning about the world.
20) "There is no contradiction between a soft heart and a hard head."
36) He can either act as a judge or a leader.... I have always believed in and endeavored to follow the active leadership role as opposed to the passive judicial role."
43) "whether it wished us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
63) John Locke was correct when he wrote: "No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience"
108) Barbara Tuchman's book <The Guns of August>
250) I have heard it said about the difference between results and consequences that results are what we expect, consequences are what we get.
374) Their hindsight was better than their foresight.
Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Palace."
422) We can at least learn what not to do next time, and that is a specific moral gain.
427) The lesson, I suppose, is that what goes around comes around.
독서습관149_맥나마라 회고록-베트남의 비극과 교훈 In Retrospect_로버트 맥나마라_2017_Vintage books(190326)
■ 저자: 로버트 맥나마라
Robert S. McNamara was secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, president of the Ford Motor Company, and president of the World Bank. Since leaving the World Bank he has been active in economic development efforts across the globe and in the arms control and non-proliferation movements. A native of San Francisco, he lives in Washington, D.C.
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