THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: KENNEDY-JOHNSON ADMINISTRATIONS by DAVID HALBERSTAM (1973-01-01) HardcoverThe 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 reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent Why did America become mired in Vietnam and why did it lose? As the definitive single volume answer to that question, this