The Best and the Brightest

"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
"[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
"Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A story which every American should read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-25-2009; Absolutely spellbinding by an excellent writer; A hard to put down classic book by a great writer who certainly did his homework.... Kennedy's so called bright bunch along with a narrow focused McNamara and the military morons in the Pentagon. For those interested in accurate history...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-24-2009; Best and the Brightest; Please contact me in about two weeks after I've finished readingthis great book from a very good and excellent author. ThanksHurdreyAngus Jordan; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-09-2009; Unique...incisive...flawed; First for the dirty parts: this is a book just crying for an editor. Typos, grammar, strange sentence fragments left dangling in space, repetition, it's all there. As for the substance of the book, an excellent example can be found on...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-11-2009; Best ever on Vietnam; I recommend this book to any of us who served in the lost cause in Vietman. Well written and informative. One of the best books I have ever read. A must reading for our Presidents and leader in the future.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-25-2009; Absolutely spellbinding by an excellent writer; A hard to put down classic book by a great writer who certainly did his homework.... Kennedy's so called bright bunch along with a narrow focused McNamara and the military morons in the Pentagon. For those interested in accurate history...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-11-2008; The Best and the Brightest; This is an important book for anyone interested in how the US became inextricably involved in Vietnam. It holds pertinent lessons for the predicament in which the US now finds itself in Iraq. Unfortunately, the book requires a determined...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-23-2008; I couldn't / didn't read it; I know that this will appear to be a strange review, since I bought the book but refused to read it. I have read three other books on the Vietnam War and was looking forward to reading Halberstam's version of it, since he's such a good...; read full review | report as inappropriate