The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.<br><br>Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, <b>The Best and the Brightest</b> 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.