When he returned home from his Pulitzer Prize-winning stint as a wartime correspondent in Vietnam for the New York Times, David Halberstam turned his attention to the question of how America had gotten so hopelessly entangled in Southeast Asia. The Best and the Brightest, an absorbing chronicle of our policy makers’ confused—but seemingly always confident—progress into the military quagmire, reveals what he discovered.
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