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The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Best and the Brightest about?
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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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,
Who reads The Best and the Brightest?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Halberstam
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394461632
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.26 / 5 (35 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14