Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

ISBN 10: 0679640991 / ISBN 13: 9780679640998

Published by Modern Library September 2001, 2001

About this Item

First Modern Library Edition. Full number line.

Seller Inventory # 357317

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Best and the Brightest
• Publisher: Modern Library September 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679640991
• ISBN 13: 9780679640998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus.
• Printing: First Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History - American

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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.

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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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

About the Author

David Halberstam is the author of a number of books, including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, and Playing for Keeps. He lives in New York City. His new book, War in a Time of Peace, will be published in September, 2001.

Senator John McCain is the author of Faith of My Fathers. After a career in the United States Navy and two terms as United States Representative, he was elected to the Senate in 1986, 1992, and 1998. He and his wife, Cindy, reside in Phoenix.