The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers & accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best & the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam & 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.