Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-06-24
Books mentioned on Shameful History: Project 100,000
During Vietnam, the U.S.
Josh Clark discussed McNamara's Folly by Hamilton Gregory, Forrest Gump by Winston Groom, and In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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McNamara's Folly
Discussed“And we also should shout out a writer uh Hamilton Gregory who was a Vietnam vet and journalist and who wrote a book McNamera Spali Colon the use of low IQ troops in the Vietnam War which I guess sort of gives away what we're talking about.”
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Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a critically acclaimed 1986 novel by Winston Groom that follows the extraordinary, eventful life of an Alabama native with a unique perspective on a turbulent era of American history.
Discussed“Or the book by Winston Groove. It's possible that he ran across that in the research. But not just Forest, but Bubba as well.”
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In Retrospect
Discussed“he's certainly somebody who uh maybe more so than most uh secretaries of defense uh looked back a lot on his life and he wrote about it and he and there was a memoir called in retrospect colon the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam”
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