- Hörkassette
- Verlag: Random House Audio; Auflage: Unabridged (25. August 1992)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679414789
- ISBN-13: 978-0679414780
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,5 x 11,2 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (16 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.455.414 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
The Best and the Brightest
und über 1 Million weitere Bücher verfügbar für Amazon Kindle .
Erfahren Sie mehr
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Produktinformation |
Mehr über den Autor
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von David Halberstam auf Amazon
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von David Halberstam auf Amazon
Produktbeschreibungen
Pressestimmen
"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam."--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
"[Robert McNamara] contends the story of how 'the best and brightest' got it wrong in Vietnam has not been told. But David Halberstam, who applied that ironic phrase to his rendering of the tale twenty-three years ago, told it better."--Max Frankel, New York Times Book Review
"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
"[Robert McNamara] contends the story of how 'the best and brightest' got it wrong in Vietnam has not been told. But David Halberstam, who applied that ironic phrase to his rendering of the tale twenty-three years ago, told it better."--Max Frankel, New York Times Book Review
Kurzbeschreibung
2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by David Clennon
Republished on its twentieth anniversary - with a special introduction that examines the Vietnam experience in light of subsequent events - The Best and the Brightest stands as the definitive source on the origins of America's involvement in Vietnam. This critically-acclaimed work masterfully captures an era as it gives us unforgettable portraits of the well-intentioned men - Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, and George Ball, among others - who orchestrated our disastrous engagement with Vietnam during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Here is a story as relevant today as it was twenty years ago - and all the more compelling because of the historical perspective.
Read by David Clennon
Republished on its twentieth anniversary - with a special introduction that examines the Vietnam experience in light of subsequent events - The Best and the Brightest stands as the definitive source on the origins of America's involvement in Vietnam. This critically-acclaimed work masterfully captures an era as it gives us unforgettable portraits of the well-intentioned men - Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, and George Ball, among others - who orchestrated our disastrous engagement with Vietnam during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Here is a story as relevant today as it was twenty years ago - and all the more compelling because of the historical perspective.
Welche anderen Artikel kaufen Kunden, nachdem sie diesen Artikel angesehen haben?
Tags(Was ist das?)Bei einem Tag handelt es sich um ein Schlagwort, das zum Produkt passt.
Tags erleichtern allen Kunden die Suche und die Sortierung ihrer Lieblingsprodukte. |
Kundenrezensionen
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Die Geschichte der Männer, die John F. Kennedy nach Washington rief. Sie waren die Besten und Begabtesten des Landes, die Elite der Nation, aufgerufeb und fähig, ein neues Amerika zu schaffen. Als sie abtraten, führte ihr Land Krieg; es war tief gespalten durch innere Krisen und Konflikte und auf dem Weg nach Watergate. Lesen Sie über ein bewegendes Kapitel nicht nur amerikanischer Geschichte und die Männer, die dies zu verantworten hatten. Das Buch ist hervorragend recherchiert und überaus unterhaltsam aber informativ geschrieben.
Format:Taschenbuch
My favorite review of this book was by Mary McCarthy, a novelist who had visited both halves of the geopolitically split country now universally known as Vietnam, when American policy was a major reason for considering that country split in two. American interest in the story which Halberstam tells in this book will always be greater than anything that Mary McCarthy might tell us about what any of the Vietnamese thought. For me this book was my first glimpse at the explicit nature of the thinking at the top, which definitely trickled down to the Americans out in the field in Vietnam, though none of them may have used it in the presence of a great American novelist like Mary McCarthy, who possessed an elite, upper-crust quality which made her defense of her own thinking on the topic as easy to dismiss as the superfluous usually are. Like a perverse philosopher viewing the comedy of mayhem, she would like to know "to what end all these excited words were assembled, . . . studded, like a ham, with anecdotes and gossip about historic decisions and high-status personalities, syrupy with compassionate insights into the gamesmanship of power?" That would be like asking why I review books, and particularly, this one.
Format:Taschenbuch
This is a truly excellent book on American policy making in Vietnam.
I first read it in 1973 or 1974. It blew my mind that 'the best and the brightest' could act as they did, whether from honest but gross misjudgement to outright lies, often mixed with incredible arrogance.
Some of the material is found in the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's own study of the war. Another reviewer commented that they had not yet been made published, but Halberstam apparently had access to them.
This book provided another (and large) nail in the coffin of my naive idealism of someone growing up in post WWII America (college, class of 1966) with respect to the US government.
I was totally absorbed when reading it. Halberstam does occasionally overuse some of his pet phrasings,e.g. 'rare ability'.
Möchten Sie weitere Rezensionen zu diesem Artikel anzeigen?
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Die neuesten Kundenrezensionen
Paranoia struck deep ...
This may sound contradictory but: David writes with a beautiful, opinionated objectivity. He distills the pre-war accomplishments and connections of the elitist leftovers from the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Juli 2000 von Arnie Tracey
is this history or self-justification?
I wasn't a great fan of Mr. Halberstam's reporting from Vietnam. It seemed to be at the time to be more than a little biased. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Dezember 1999 von Daniel Ford
Essential for anyone studying National Security Affairs
I listened to the book on tape to supplement my reading for class. It was VERY interesting and I learned a lot about the personalities involved in the United States government... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Oktober 1999 von Kevin P. Schultz
The best of its genre, EVER
I am a political history junkie. I read everything I can get my hands on that deals with that subject. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
A large and superb book focused on the origins of the war
A large-scale work focused on the origins of the war, this book was the first of its kind by far -- published in 1972, it was written without the benefit of the Pentagon Papers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Absolutely stunning in its analysis and presentation
This book is not for the faint-hearted. David Halberstam, who personally witnessed and suffered from the incompetence of the US and ARVN forces during a crucial period in the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Probably better to read the book
I bought this by mistake (I wanted the book) but thought I would listen to it anyway. Clennon's efforts to sound like JFK, LBJ, & others adds a measure of irritation to an... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Why were we in Vietnam? Halberstam brilliantly explains
Along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches" (the unsurpased grunt's-eye view of Vietnam) and Stanley Karnow's "Vietnam: A History," "The Best and the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Oktober 1998 von Craig Bleakley
The Times That Tried Men's Souls
This is probably one of the most masterful non-fiction books written in America in the past thirty-five years. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. August 1998 von R. P. Bland
Halberstam Failed To Mention One Important Point
Brilliant work. I have always recommended this book to foreigners interested in American foreign policy. Halberstam, however, forgets one important point. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Mai 1998 veröffentlicht
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
Ähnliche Artikel finden
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
