The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

688 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest recko...

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challenging 80%
informative 80%
reflective 60%
dark 40%
sad 40%
adventurous 20%
tense 20%

Pace

slow 100%

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4.25

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