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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
"Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional". -- The New York Times Book Review
"A story which every American should read". -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Book Details
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Publish Date: Oct 26th, 1993
- Pages: 720
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.00in - 1.40in - 1.45lb
- EAN: 9780449908709
- Categories: • United States - 20th Century• Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War• Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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About the Author
Senator John McCain 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 Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, Character Is Destiny, Hard Call, Thirteen Soldiers, and The Restless Wave. John McCain died in 2018.
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What people are saying
"I was struck…by how thoughtful, confident, and deeply reported Halberstam’s book is—especially considering that it was published in 1972, when the United States was still embroiled in exiting Vietnam, and had yet to fully examine how it it had got there in the first place."
Branko Milanović is an economist.
I am reading on vacation David Helberstam's "The Best and the Brightest". It's an excellent book; super well researched, often ironic, with a wealth of unknown details. Here is Rostow, the originator of the theory of Third World Dev't, the ideological father of the World Bank.
‘A meticulous historian with a taste for the offbeat’ — Sunday Times • She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, @AMHeathLtd.
Planning a reboot of David Halberstam’s book, The Best and the Brightest, about John F. Kennedy’s advisors. Working title: The Worst and the Stupidest. https://t.co/waVQEceu43
Praise for this book
"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
What people are saying
"I was struck…by how thoughtful, confident, and deeply reported Halberstam’s book is—especially considering that it was published in 1972, when the United States was still embroiled in exiting Vietnam, and had yet to fully examine how it it had got there in the first place."
Branko Milanović is an economist.
I am reading on vacation David Helberstam's "The Best and the Brightest". It's an excellent book; super well researched, often ironic, with a wealth of unknown details. Here is Rostow, the originator of the theory of Third World Dev't, the ideological father of the World Bank.