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A 3 page book review that discusses David Halberstam’s classic text on the Vietnam War, The Best and the Brightest. The writer summaries the importance and content of the book and draws on numerous commentaries that have praised the significance of this text. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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official version of events and issues offered by the federal government.i Halberstam, who was in his twenties at this time, went to Vietnam "believing that it was a necessary front
in a global struggle" with communism.ii George Packer, in writing about Halberstams contributions to journalism and his classic text The Best and the Brightest, indicates that Halberstam established the a
"new mode of journalism," one that pictures the reporter as a "fearless truthteller."iii Fundamentally, this statement sums up the context and value of The Best and the Brightest: it tells
the truth, a truth that remains uncomfortable to American, but it is nevertheless, the truth. By 1972, David Halberstam refused to accept the optimistic position taken by the
U.S. government concerning its involvement in Vietnam.iv His book examines in detail the motivations and thought processes of the "brilliant, prominent men" who led the nation into a debacle that
destroyed the Vietnamese countryside, provided the ultimate embarrassment in U.S. history and took countless lives.v In the classic text that Halberstam wrote at that time, he castigated the government and
asserted that the position of the Vietnamese people in turning to Communism in order to resist Western colonialism had never been fully examined.vi Furthermore, Halberstam pointed out that the U.S.
government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, was valid.vii When intelligence experts were asked to evaluate the domino
theory, their response indicated their doubts on this issue, but, in each instance, the administration in power at the time would ignore the implications of the intelligence evaluation.viii In an
interview with Warren Bass, which took place in January of 2005, Halberstam indicated the difference between the way that he perceives Kennedys view of Vietnam and that of Johnson, which
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