Halberstam
There have been quite a few good histories of the American involvement in Vietnam, including Neil Sheehan’s “A Bright and Shining Lie,” Sidney Karnow’s “Vietnam: A History,” Michael Herr’s “Dispatches,” and Frances Fitzgerald’s “Fire in the Lake”. The one which really exposed American policy mistakes, however, was David Halberstam’s “The Best and the Brightest.” Halberstam …