![]() ![]() ![]() We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative. The Best and the Brightest is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.” - The Boston Globe It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation’s search for its idealistic soul. ![]() “The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”- The New York Times David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain. ![]()
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