The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
Published for the first time: 1/1/1969
688 pages, Paperback
Genres: International Relations, American History, History, Politics, Military Fiction, Nonfiction, War
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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.
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