David Halberstam is the author of a number of books,
including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of
'49, Playing for Keeps, and War in a Time of Peace. He
lives in New York City.
Senator John McCain entered the Naval Academy in June of
1954 and served in the United States Navy until 1981. He was
elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982
and to the Senate in 1986. The Republican Party’s nominee for
president in the 2008 election, McCain was also the
author of Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting
For, Why Courage Matters, Character Is Destiny, Hard
Call, Thirteen Soldiers, and The Restless Wave. John
McCain died in 2018.
"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
“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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