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.

"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times

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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.

Praise for The Best and the Brightest

“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

“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

“A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.”—The Washington Post Book World

“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.”—Newsweek

“A story every American should read.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Edition

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An account of american power and politics in the 1950s and 1960s highlights the political and military figures who shaped domestic and foreign policy and who orchestrated america s involvement in vietnam reissue Uiterlijk 15 november in huis .. MEER INFO

The Powers That Be

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A pulitzer prize winner s in depth look at four media business giants cbs tv time magazine the washington post and the los angeles times in this fascinating new york times bestseller the author of the best and the brightest the fifties and other acclaimed histories turns his investigative Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

The Making of a Quagmire

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Pulitzer prize winning author david halberstam s eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the united states created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about in the introduction to this edition historian daniel j singal supplies crucial backg 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 maart 2002

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: David Halberstam

Tweede Auteur: David Hamilton-Williams

Hoofduitgeverij: Modern Library

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Editie: 20th

Product breedte: 159 mm

Product hoogte: 32 mm

Product lengte: 235 mm

Studieboek: Nee

EAN: 9781588360984

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