The best and the brightest (Modern Library ed.)

David Halberstams masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.Using portraits of Americas 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 countrys 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As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.From the Hardcover edition.