The Best and the Brightest

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David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain. 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic."