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Groupthink : psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes / Irving L. Janis.

By: Janis, Irving L. (Irving Lester), 1918-1990Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1982. Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0395317045 (pbk.); 9780395317044Subject(s): Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 | Policy sciences -- Case studies | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 | United States -- Foreign relations administrationDDC classification: 374 LOC classification: E744 | .J29 1982Online resources: WorldCat details
Contents:
TOC Fiascoes. Introduction: Why so many miscalculations? ; A perfect failure: The Bay of Pigs ; In and out of North Korea: "The wrong war with the wrong enemy" ; Pearl Harbor revisited: Or, why the fortress slept ; Escalation of the Vietnam War: How could it happen? -- Counterpoint. The Cuban Missile Crisis ; The making of the Marshall Plan. -- Theory, implications, and applications. The groupthink syndrome ; The Watergate cover-up: How clever manipulators can get caught in an avoidable quagmire ; Generalizations: Who succumbs, when, and why ; Preventing groupthink.
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Reserve Section 		Non-fiction 374 JAG 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-1 Not For Loan 5990
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Rev. and enl. ed. of: Victims of groupthink. 1972.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 327-334.

TOC Fiascoes. Introduction: Why so many miscalculations? ; A perfect failure: The Bay of Pigs ; In and out of North Korea: "The wrong war with the wrong enemy" ; Pearl Harbor revisited: Or, why the fortress slept ; Escalation of the Vietnam War: How could it happen? --
Counterpoint. The Cuban Missile Crisis ; The making of the Marshall Plan. --
Theory, implications, and applications. The groupthink syndrome ; The Watergate cover-up: How clever manipulators can get caught in an avoidable quagmire ; Generalizations: Who succumbs, when, and why ; Preventing groupthink.

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