An American classic: First published in 1973, David Halberstam's magnificent reckoning with the most important abiding questions of our country's recent history: How and why did America become so tragically mired in Vietnam?
Ballantine
November 1993
720 pages ISBN: 0449908704 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
"The Vietnam War has seemed more shadowy and cinematic to me than anything else for most of my life. I was born during the Watergate Hearings. My generation was touched by the war in Vietnam, but only in the sense that our parents were part of it--whether they marched for peace or served in the military or fell somewhere in between. But unlike the Baby Boomers, we are not defined by the war--it, literally and figuratively, did not make us. So, as a consequence, when I think of the Vietnam War it is the images that the generations before me created that come to mind--Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon...
When I read The Best and the Brightest, that all changed. For the first time, I understood. No matter what your position may have been or may be, this book fully and expertly explores the American foreign policy decisions and actions that led to this war and its execution and paints a clear picture of its catalytic role in the shaping of today's America." -Kelly Lamb, Marketing Coordinator
originally published in 1973, with a new foreward.
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