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The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. 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 it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It's an American classic.

Language: English

Pages: 688

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Release: October 26, 1993

ISBN: 0449908704

ISBN 13: 9780449908709

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. 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 it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It's an American classic.

Language: English

Pages: 688

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Release: October 26, 1993

ISBN: 0449908704

ISBN 13: 9780449908709

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