
The Best and the Brightest
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Narrated by:
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Mark Bramhall
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By:
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David Halberstam
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a foreword by Senator John McCain.
"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.” (The New York Times)
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 history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic.
“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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an american tragedy
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If you could sum up The Best and the Brightest in three words, what would they be?
Excellent writing, fantastic reader.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Best and the Brightest?
The background of the Kennedy involvement.What about Mark Bramhall’s performance did you like?
Steady and smooth.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, It would take over a whole day.Any additional comments?
I will by the "Prequel" about KoreaThe Best Political History of Viet Nam
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Amazing
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The best audiobook I've ever heard
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The Tragic History of Where America Went Wrong
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War is complex and unpredictable. Containment is not possible.
This war affected my generation in a big way. Listening to this book is part of an attempt to learn why we thought blowing up Vietnam was a good idea.
This book covers the beginning and middle, but not the end.
Vietnam is necessary history
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So sad that all this was repeated in Iraq and Afghistan
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How all the Best and Bravest were lost to History.
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With this book, which i started reading in college, the historical fault lines and the tensions upon the key actors is now put into its proper perspective. This book is Halberstam's magnum opus.
I highly recommend to listeners his book THE COLDEST WAR which was written long after THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTESTMany of thesame forces were at work both in Korea and Viet Nam
I could not keep my ears away from this book
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Timeless
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