Name: The Best and the Brightest
ISBN: 9780449908709

David Halberstam

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.

The Best and the Brightest

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.