The Best and the Brightest (20) (Modern Library Classics Ser.)

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Synopsis
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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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
Copyright:
1993

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
720 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781588360984
Related ISBNs:
9780679640998, 9780449908709, 9780525524885, 9780525524892, 9780679410621, 9780739358559
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
David Halberstam
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Foreword by:
John McCain

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