{"product_id":"the-best-and-the-brightest","title":"'The Best and the Brightest'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDavid Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing portraits of America’ s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIliad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of the American empire and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of this nation’s search for its idealistic soul. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Best and the Brightest\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A story every American should read.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Halberstam (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51992834539841,"sku":null,"price":1199.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3087\/9041\/files\/25_8754ad7d-13f1-442c-8b2b-bd0268e9eb87.webp?v=1784294395","url":"https:\/\/www.bookemporium.pk\/products\/the-best-and-the-brightest","provider":"The Book Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}