Remarkably rich analysis...an especially important and insightful contribution to the literature on the Vietnam War.
- Gary R. Hess, American Historical Review
Striking material...this subject has been written about often, but never with keener understanding.
- Ronald Steel,
The best in print...an impressive range of sources to craft a work that not only delineates LBJ's dilemmas but penetrates his motives.
- John Prados, author of Presidents' Secret Wars,
An unusually lucid and even gripping work of scholarship.
- Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
An absolutely terrific book...<i>Pay Any Price</i> is simply the best book on the period anyone has written.
- Marilyn B. Young, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990,