{"product_id":"books-the-best-and-the-brightest-by-david-halberstam","title":"The Best and the Brightest","description":"\u003cb\u003eDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/i\u003e 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e of the American empire and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest \u003c\/i\u003eis almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply 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.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . .  An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeductively readable . . . It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam's performance. . . . This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story every American should read.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53671131775249,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780679640998.jpg?v=1781514865","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-the-best-and-the-brightest-by-david-halberstam","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}