Binding: Paperback
Description: David Halberstam's masterpiece the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy with a new Foreword by Senator John Mc Cain." A rich entertaining and profound reading experience. The New York Times Using portraits of America'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 country'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 As the definitive single - volume answer to that question this enthralling book has never been superseded.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 The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam . It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. The Best and the Brightest is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The Boston Globe Deeply 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. Los Angeles Times A fascinating tale of folly and self - deception An absorbing detailed and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars. The Washington Post Book World Seductively readable It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam's performance . This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book. Newsweek A story every American should read. St. Louis Post - Dispatch
Title: The Best And The Brightest
Author(s): Halberstam David
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780449908709
Pages: 708 Pages
Publication Date: 10/26/1993
Category: Warfare & Defence