{"title":"David Halberstam","description":"David Halberstam is the author of a number of books, including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, Playing for Keeps, and War in a Time of Peace. He lives in New York City.","products":[{"product_id":"the-best-and-the-brightest-paperback","title":"The Best and the Brightest - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/i\u003e 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e of the American empire and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest \u003c\/i\u003eis almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative. . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Seductively readable . . . It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam's performance. . . . This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A story every American should read.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience. -- The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.\" -- The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative . . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance.\" -- Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional.\" -- The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"A story which every American should read.\" -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50622000267487,"sku":"9780449908709","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/s-hgw62-zG9780449908709.webp?v=1785515521"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-halberstam.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}