The Best and the Brightest
#2398 of 3,809 books · #790 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1973).
David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, uses portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them to reckon 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780394461632
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1973)
Other awarded books from David Halberstam
- The Powers That Be (1979)0 wins · 8 score
- The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (2014)0 wins · 4 score
- War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (2001)0 wins · 4 score
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