{"product_id":"the-best-and-the-brightest-9780449908709-new","title":"The Best and the Brightest","description":"\u003cb\u003eDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Using 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52390438961312,"sku":"9780449908709-new","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0463\/0115\/1392\/files\/519OR2sL8BL.jpg?v=1744034893","url":"https:\/\/shop.mtwyouth.org\/products\/the-best-and-the-brightest-9780449908709-new","provider":"More Than Words ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}