num_pages: 688
description: 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.
language: English
title: The Best and the Brightest
titlecomplete: The Best and the Brightest
genres: Historical, Military Fiction, History, Biography, International Relations, American History, War, Politics, The United States Of America, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 11952
awards: awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Cornelius Ryan Award, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Contemporary Affairs
publisher: Ballantine Books