The best and the brightest

History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML: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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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 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 �A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.��The Washington Post Book World �Seductively readable . . . It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam�s performance. . . . This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book.��Newsweek �A story every American should read.��St. Louis Post-Dispatch.… (more)