A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize.
Philip and William Taubman's “McNamara at War” is this year's winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, The New York Historical announced Monday. The Taubmans' book traces McNamara's ascent as a business leader after World War II, and his downfall as a chief proponent of the Vietnam War in the 1960s who would later decide the conflict was unwinnable. He died in 2009, and long expressed regrets about the war.
