The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

780 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Br...

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challenging 77%
informative 77%
reflective 66%
sad 33%
dark 22%
tense 22%
adventurous 11%

Pace

slow 100%

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4.22

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