The Best and the Brightest
By David Halberstam
- Release Date: 2024-06-22
- Genre: U.S. History
Description
The Best and the Brightest is a masterful work of modern history that examines how America’s most confident and influential leaders led the nation into the Vietnam War. With penetrating insight and narrative power, Halberstam profiles the elite policymakers—brilliant, ambitious, and deeply flawed—whose decisions shaped one of the most tragic chapters in U.S. history. Blending rigorous reporting with compelling storytelling, the book reveals how intellect, arrogance, and political pressure combined to produce catastrophic consequences, making The Best and the Brightest an essential, sobering read for anyone seeking to understand power, policy, and the cost of misguided certainty.
