The best and the brightest
By: David Halberstam ; foreword by John McCain.
Edition: Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 780
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963; United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
Description: "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 we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this book has never been superseded."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [767]-772) and index.