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The Best and the Brightest

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  • 1969
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David Halberstam
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The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accoun... Show More

The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. 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 it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It's an American classic.

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Number of Pages: 688

ISBN: 0449908704

ISBN-13: 9780449908709

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Branko Milanović @BrankoMilan · Jan 12, 2023
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I am reading on vacation David Helberstam's "The Best and the Brightest". It's an excellent book; super well researched, often ironic, with a wealth of unknown details. Here is Rostow, the originator of the theory of Third World Dev't, the ideological father of the World Bank.
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