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The Best and the Brightest - Paperback By Halberstam, David - VERY GOOD
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- ISBN
- 0449908704
- Book Title
- Best and the Brightest
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Military / Vietnam War, Commentary & Opinion
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 720 Pages
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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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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." - LosAngelesTimes "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
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0449908704
ISBN-13
9780449908709
eBay Product ID (ePID)
536622
Product Key Features
Book Title
Best and the Brightest
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Military / Vietnam War, Commentary & Opinion
Publication Year
1993
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
720 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E169.12
Edition Description
Anniversary
Edition Number
20
Reviews
"For anyone who aspires to a position of national leadership, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, this book should be mandatory reading. And anyone who feels a need, as a confused former prisoner of war once felt the need, for insights into how a great and good nation can lose a war and see its worthy purposes and principles destroyed by self-delusion can do no better than to read and reread David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest." --from the Foreword by Senator John McCain "The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . [I]t is also The Iliad of the American empire and The Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul." --The Boston Globe "Seductively readable. . . . [I]t is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam's perfor-mance." --Newsweek "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." --The New York Times, "For anyone who aspires to a position of national leadership, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, this book should be mandatory reading. And anyone who feels a need, as a confused former prisoner of war once felt the need, for insights into how a great and good nation can lose a war and see its worthy purposes and principles destroyed by self-delusion can do no better than to read and reread David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest ." --from the Foreword by Senator John McCain "The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . [I]t is also The Iliad of the American empire and The Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul." -- The Boston Globe "Seductively readable. . . . [I]t is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam's perfor-mance." -- Newsweek "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times From the Hardcover edition., "For anyone who aspires to a position of national leadership, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, this book should be mandatory reading. And anyone who feels a need, as a confused former prisoner of war once felt the need, for insights into how a great and good nation can lose a war and see its worthy purposes and principles destroyed by self-delusion can do no better than to read and reread David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest ." --from the Foreword by Senator John McCain "The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . [I]t is also The Iliad of the American empire and The Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul." -- The Boston Globe "Seductively readable. . . . [I]t is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam's perfor-mance." -- Newsweek "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
973.92
Dewey Edition
21
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