The Best and the Brightest - by David Halberstam (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Now in its 20th anniversary edition, this 1973 classic is an unforgettable chronicle of John Kennedy's Camelot and its legacy--featuring remarkable portraits of the men who conceived and executed the Vietnam War, including Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.</b> <p/><b>A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience."--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/> Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, <i>The Best and the Brightest</i> 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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. <p/><b>Praise for <i>The Best and the Brightest</i></b> <p/>"The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also the <i>Iliad</i> of the American empire and the <i>Odyssey</i> of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. <i>The Best and the Brightest </i>is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller."<b>--</b><i><b>The Boston Globe<br></b></i><br>"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."<b>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b> <p/>"A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars."<b>--<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b> <p/>"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."<b>--<i>Newsweek</i><br></b><br>"A story every American should read."<b>--<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>"The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also the <i>Iliad</i> of the American empire and the <i>Odyssey</i> of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. <i>The Best and the Brightest </i>is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller."<b>--</b><i><b>The Boston Globe<br></b> </i><br>"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."<b>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b> <p/>"A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars."<b>--<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b> <p/>"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."<b>--<i>Newsweek</i><br></b> <br>"A story every American should read."<b>--<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Halberstam</b> is the author of a number of books, including <i>The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, Playing for Keeps, </i>and <i>War in a Time of Peace.</i> He lives in New York City. <br><b><br>Senator John McCain</b> entered the Naval Academy in June of 1954 and served in the United States Navy until 1981. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982 and to the Senate in 1986. The Republican Party's nominee for president in the 2008 election, McCain was also the author of <i>Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, Character Is Destiny, Hard Call, Thirteen Soldiers, </i> and <i>The Restless Wave.</i> John McCain died in 2018.
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