The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest

Editorial Reviews
Review
"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam."--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

"[Robert McNamara] contends the story of how 'the best and brightest' got it wrong in Vietnam has not been told. But David Halberstam, who applied that ironic phrase to his rendering of the tale twenty-three years ago, told it better."--Max Frankel, New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description
"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
"[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
"Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A story which every American should read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest,David Halberstam,Ballantine Books,0449908704,1961-1963,1963-1969,Anthropology - Cultural,History - General History,History - U.S.,History: American,Politics and government,United States,United States - 20th Century,United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000),United States - 20th Century (1945 to present),Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,American history: postwar, from c 1945 -,Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -,Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural,USA,Vietnam,Warfare & Defence

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