Books
December, 1972
The decision makers who so thoroughly deceived themselves as well as the rest of us as they entangled the nation in Vietnam are probed in David Halberstam's long, fascinatingly detailed contribution to the psychohistory of America's quarter century in Southeast Asian quicksand. The Best and the Brightest (Random House) provides a narrative of the spiraling disaster as experienced within the inner Government as well as a series of unsparing profiles of the protagonists, especially those highly ed...
