The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstamâ€™s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.

"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.â€â€”The New York Times

Using portraits of Americaâ€™ s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our countryâ€™s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic.

Praise for The Best and the Brightest

â€œThe most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also theÂ IliadÂ of the American empire and theÂ OdysseyÂ of this nationâ€™s search for its idealistic soul.Â The Best and the BrightestÂ is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.â€â€”The Boston Globe

â€œDeeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative. . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance.â€â€”LosÂ AngelesÂ Times

â€œA fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.â€â€”The Washington Post Book World

â€œSeductively readable . . . It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstamâ€™s performance. . . . This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book.â€â€”Newsweek

â€œA story every American should read.â€â€”St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Country USA
Brand BALLANTINE GROUP
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1993-10-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780449908709

Country	USA
Brand	BALLANTINE GROUP
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	1993-10-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780449908709

The Best and the Brightest

You might also like...