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The Best and the Brightest - Halberstam, David, and McCain, John (Foreword by)
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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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The Best and the Brightest 2001, Modern Library, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780679640998

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ISBN-13: 9780449908709

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The Best and the Brightest 1992, Random House (NY), New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780679410621

20th Anniversary edition

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Select 		Best and the Brightest 1992, Random House Audio Publishing Group, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780679414780

20th ANNIVERSARY edition

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The Best and the Brightest 1983, Penguin Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780140069839

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Select 		The Best and the Brightest 1972, Random House (NY), New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780394461632

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All Editions of The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest

2001, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780679640998

The Best and the Brightest

1993, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780449908709

The Best and the Brightest

1992, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780679410621

Best and the Brightest

1992, Audiobook cassette

ISBN-13:

9780679414780

The Best and the Brightest

1983, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780140069839

The Best and the Brightest

1972, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780394461632

Books by David Halberstam

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Marcia A

Aug 15, 2013

A must read for history buffs

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.

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