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PublisherRandom House, Incorporated

ISBN-100394461630

ISBN-139780394461632

eBay Product ID (ePID)2130833

Product Key Features

Publication Year1972

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Military / Vietnam War

Book TitleBest and the Brightest

LanguageEnglish

GenreHistory

AuthorDavid Halberstam

FormatHardcover

Additional Product Features

LCCN72-002728

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal973.92

SynopsisAn account of American power and politics in the 1950s and 1960s highlights the political and military figures who shaped domestic and foreign policy and who orchestrated America's involvement in Vietnam., "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times "[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 "Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional." -- The New York Times Book Review "A story which every American should read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch