The Best and the Brightest

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0449908704 ISBN13: 9780449908709 Release Date: October 1993 Publisher: Ballantine Books Length: 720 Pages Weight: 1.55 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1" David Halberstam'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."--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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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 emp