The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.
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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.
VIETNAM WAR, 1961-1975_UNITED STATESUNITED STATES_POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT_1961-1963UNITED STATES_POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT_1963-1969
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERModern Library
LENGTH816
LANGUAGEEN
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.
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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.
VIETNAM WAR, 1961-1975_UNITED STATESUNITED STATES_POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT_1961-1963UNITED STATES_POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT_1963-1969
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERModern Library
LENGTH816
LANGUAGEEN