The classic portrait of power and politics in the 1960s featuring the brilliant men who led the country into the Vietnam War, republished on its 20th anniversary with a new introduction by the author.
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The classic portrait of power and politics in the 1960s featuring the brilliant men who led the country into the Vietnam War, republished on its 20th anniversary with a new introduction by the author.
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Deluxe Leather Edition. -In Fine, Like New Condition. -No ownership markings, or bookplates-Bound in Fine Genuine Leather-22kt gold-stamped spine accents-Distinctive raised spine hubs, -Intricate gilt stamped cover designs, -Specially milled acid-neutral paper, -Smyth-sewn pages, -Gilded page edges, -Permanent satin ribbon page-marker. A Fine Copy. Includes the "Publisher's Notes" Insert laid-in. As New Condition-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Shipped.
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Very Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Collector's Edition, with a note about the author laid in as well as the publisher's certificate of authenticity. Appears unread with the ribbon marker still folded. Often overlooked is the very important bibliography for scholars included in this volume. Steve Bannon suggested during the transition that Trump read this book, he didn't. A 25 minute interview on one CD with the author of The Best and the Brightest, recorded just after the publishing of the book when sales were soaring. The interviewer's name is Casper (LNU. ) The interviewer predicts Halberstam may win the Pulitzer Prize for the book (he did for his reporting, not for this book. ) Who are the few heros in the book? How did the McCarthy Era affect Vietnam? Why has the military generally approved of the book? Halberstam accuses McNamara of lying to hm in an interview while preparing for the book. Great insights into this famous author's most cherished book. This is NOT an audio book recording of the Best and the Brightest, just an interview with the author.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition thus, first printing, hardcover. Gray cloth with gilt titles. xxviii, 780 pages. Foreword by Senator Johm McCain. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear. Mylar-cover on jacket.
Whether or not you lived through the Viet Nam war, this history is a must read. I have to admit it is VERY detailed and a broader history would be helpful in some instances, but it is worth time and effort. Not a book you'll read cover to cover at once, at least not in my opinion, but one everyone should attempt to add to their understanding of our political and foreign affairs.
Charlton
May 14, 2009
Revealing look at Kennedy administration
The people, policies and decisions that inexorably brought this nation into a land war in Vietnam are revealed in this historical novel by David Halberstam. The powerful political figures working behind the scenes in Democratic and Republican presidential adminstrations following WWII are brought to life. Not simply an examination of the historical who, what, when and where but also the how and why that brought the United States into the Vietnam War. It examines the people who made up Kennedy's White House staff against the backdrop of U.S. policies in Asia, contrasting the views of foreign service officers in the field against the political pressure brought on with the birth of the Cold War. Halberstam draws the reader into a world of powerful, privileged men making decisions that would affect our nation's foreign policy to this day.
CharleyinTX
Mar 19, 2009
Great read
Everyone should read this book. Applies to today as well as then.
Really a great book.
Bevan
Jan 1, 2009
classic
Great book about a true American hero. And, tells the real story about why we lost the Vietnam war.
WmTN
Sep 11, 2008
Another Screeching Diatribe
Halberstam was a professional iconoclast. His views on politics and war run from the naieve to the rediculous. If one compares this book with, say, Palmer's "summons of the Trumpet," one would wonder whether the two books were about the same war. At one point in a later book Halberstam tell his readers that there were (are) two kinds of communisim, the bad old Stalinist version and the pure aggrarian reformers, as in VietNam and North Korea. He apparently does not know of Kruschev's "wars of nantional liberation" that provided the fig leaf for massive Soviet aid to North VietNam. Lots of passion, little of History.
