David Halberstam

A study of the men who came to power during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and of their leadership of America during the sixties.

The Best and the Brightest

Highlights the political and military figures who rose to prominence in the sixties and examines their role in shaping domestic and foreign policies, centering on American involvement in Vietnam.

Dana Kraft

I struggled with this more than I expected to. I found it too long and I got bored with the minutiae of meetings and biographical details. At some level, I take away from it that the success of a complex system of people and decisions is absolutely not correlated to the sum of the brains, experience and education of its people - at least as Americans have traditionally defined those qualities. But it seems more about systems and incentives than people.

The Best and the Brightest

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