Editing The Color of Truth

{{short description|2000 book by Kai Bird}}
{{italic title}}
{{Infobox book
| name = The Color of Truth
| image = The Color of Truth.jpg
| author = Kai Bird
| genre = [[Non-fiction]]
| language = English
| publisher = Touchstone Books
| pub_date = 2000
| pages = 298
| isbn =  978-068-4856-445
}}

'''''The Color of Truth''''' is a book by [[Kai Bird]], published by [[Touchstone Books]] in June 2000. Subtitled ''[[McGeorge Bundy]] and [[William Bundy]]: Brothers in Arms'', it is a [[biography]] focusing on the Bundys' role in American foreign policy, especially in the progression of the [[Vietnam War]].

Bird argues evidence presented in ''The Color of Truth'' reveals the brothers "registered deep doubts about the American enterprise in Vietnam and did so far earlier than most historians had thought," although they never ceased promoting it during their time with the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] administrations. He portrays them as complicated men who served their country, and headed many progressive causes during and after the war, and attributes their refusal to take a hard line against a war they morally opposed to their fear of risking political capital from the [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] [[Vital Center]].

==References==
*Kai Bird, ''The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms'', Touchstone, June 2000. {{ISBN|0-684-85644-1}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Color Of Truth}}
[[Category:2000 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:American biographies]]
[[Category:Books about American politicians]]
[[Category:Touchstone Books books]]


{{US-poli-bio-book-stub}}