The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

ISBN 10: 0394461630 / ISBN 13: 9780394461632

Published by Random House Inc., New York, 1972

About this Item

Used; Good. 5-G-34 Random House 1972 hardcover. Previous owner's name stamp on front free end page and outer page edges. Text is clean and unmarked. Jacket has wear around the edges. Book Condition; Good Jacket Condition; Good . 1972. HARDCOVER.

Seller Inventory # 9780394461632

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best and the Brightest
• Publisher: Random House Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394461630
• ISBN 13: 9780394461632
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Condition: Used; Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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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