The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

ISBN 10: 0394461630 / ISBN 13: 9780394461632

Published by Random House Inc, New York, NY, 1972

About this Item

Blue cloth hardcover in fine condition; bright gilt spine lettering; previous owner's name; else clean and unmarked. Jacket has a taped tear and some wear to spine ends and corners. "The story of what happened when the best and brightest men in the country came to Washington, to serve the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and exercised, or failed to exercise, their power in office." --jacket.

Seller Inventory # MHC584

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best and the Brightest
• Publisher: Random House Inc, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394461630
• ISBN 13: 9780394461632
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 7th printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • NATIONAL CONCERNS
  • HISTORY

About this title

Synopsis

Highlights the political and military figures who rose to prominence in the sixties and examines their role in shaping domestic and foreign policies, focusing on American involvement in Vietnam

From the Publisher

The Vietnam War has seemed more shadowy and cinematic to me than anything else for most of my life. I was born during the Watergate Hearings. My generation was touched by the war in Vietnam, but only in the sense that our parents were part of it--whether they marched for peace or served in the military or fell somewhere in between. But unlike the Baby Boomers, we are not defined by the war--it, literally and figuratively, did not make us. So, as a consequence, when I think of the Vietnam War it is the images that the generations before me created that come to mind--Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon...

When I read The Best and the Brightest, that all changed. For the first time, I understood. No matter what your position may have been or may be, this book fully and expertly explores the American foreign policy decisions and actions that led to this war and its execution and paints a clear picture of its catalytic role in the shaping of today's America.

-Kelly Lamb, Marketing Coordinator