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Appearances
Upcoming
- Wednesday, October 15th at 4:30pm (Book launch party): William Taubman will talk about McNamara at War: A New History at the The Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum, 197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst College.
- Saturday, October 25 at Time TBD: The Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives, Stockbridge, MA.
- Tuesday, October 28 at Time TBD: The Hoover Institution with Philip Zelico, Stanford, CA.
- Wednesday, October 29 at 5:30pm PST: Commonwealth Club with David M. Kennedy, San Francisco, CA.
- Wednesday, December 3 at 6:30pm EST: The New-York Historical Society with David E. Sanger, New York, NY.
Past
- September 28, 2025: Book Talk: Philip Taubman–McNamara at War: A New History — with Bob Woodward.
Interviews
- “Understanding Robert McNamara,”Echoes of the Vietnam War Podcast, October 9, 2025.
- “Ep. 239: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power,” C-SPAN Booknotes+ Podcast, October 7, 2025.
- “Episode 172: Philip and William Taubman on McNamara at War,” Bookstack with Richard Aldous, October 5, 2025.
- “Philip Taubman & William Taubman: In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer,” Sept. 18, 2025.
- “Unpacking the Mind behind Vietnam: Dr. William Taubman on McNamara at War,” Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast, Sept. 16, 2025.
- “The Double Life of Robert McNamara: How America’s ‘Best and Brightest’ Led the Nation into Vietnam…,” Keen on American Podcast with Andrew Keen, September 5, 2025.
- Hemlock #31: McNamara’s Cold War: Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Taubman on Vietnam, the Domino Theory, Khrushchev…,” History of Philosophy Audio Archive, August 23, 2025.
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Featured photo: McNamara getting a first-hand report on front-line action from Lt. Van Buren Wake, Jr. General William Westmoreland is at right, July 20, 1965. Bettmann/Getty Images