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The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam · 初版 1969 年
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David Halberstam的传世之作，记录Vietnam悲剧形成过程的开创性史著，附有参议员John McCain撰写的全新序言。The Best and the Brightest通过对美国那些存在重大缺陷的决策者的生动刻画，以及对驱使他们行事的各方势力的详实记录，恢弘地审视了我国近代历史上最重要且经久不散的叩问：美国为何深陷Vietnam泥潭，而我们又因何而败？作为回答这一问题的终极单卷本著作，这部扣人心弦的杰作从未被超越。这是一部美国经典之作。摘自精装版。
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同样推荐：《The Best and the Brightest》（https://www.amazon.com/Best-Brightest-David-Halberstam/dp/04...）。书名指的是当时备受仰慕的一群人——当然也包括罗伯特·麦克纳马拉（Robert McNamara）。这些人都是……
Also recommended: "The Best and the Brightest" (https://www.amazon.com/Best-Brightest-David-Halberstam/dp/04...) The title refers to individuals who at the time were widely admired -- including of course Robert McNamara. These individuals were of…
……也提醒了我真正的冒险必然伴随着风险。罗伯特·菲斯克（Robert Fisk）的《The Great War for Civilisation》让我明白，无论我对外国冲突了解多少，其实我对外国冲突一无所知。大卫·哈伯斯塔姆（David Halberstam）的《The Best and the Brightest》为美国政府如何开启海外冒险行动提供了一套模板。它让我明白，当把一群绝顶聪明的人集中在同一个房间里时，他们能做出多么愚蠢的事情。
…also reminded me that real adventure necessitates risk. The Great War for Civilisation - Robert Fisk Taught me that whatever I know about foreign conflict, I know nothing about foreign conflict. The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam Provides a template for how the US government embarks upon adventures abroad. Taught me how stupid tremendously smart people can be when you get them all together in one room.
……掠夺穷人并将其向上再分配给富人，同时镇压那些声称要均贫富的民众革命运动。（我最近重读了大卫·哈伯斯塔姆那部权威著作《The Best and the Brightest》，讲的是美国介入越战的源起，包括在摆脱日本占领后支持法国继续维持殖民统治的行径。强烈推荐。）> 而当我还是个……
…the poor and redistributing them upward to the wealthy, and suppressing popular revolutionary movements that professed to want to even things out. (I recently re-read David Halberstam's magisterial The Best and the Brightest about the origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, including backing the French efforts to stay as the colonial power after liberation from Japanese occupation. Highly recommended.) > And when I was a…
去看看大卫·哈伯斯塔姆的书《The Best and the Brightest》。在越南问题上做出糟糕政策决策的那些人，可全都是那个时代美国教育体制培养出来的最顶尖精英。
Take a look at David Halberstam's book The Best and the Brightest. The people who made bad policy decisions with respect to Vietnam were among the finest products of the American educational system of that era.
……道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟给肯尼迪总统的建议——不要在亚洲派驻地面部队——并未被采纳。[0] 对这场溃败感兴趣的人应该读读大卫·哈伯斯塔姆的扛鼎之作《The Best and the Brightest》。[1] [0] https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/a-new-take-on-general-macart... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest
…Douglas MacArthur's advice to President Kennedy — not to put troops on the ground in Asia — didn't carry the day. [0] Those interested in this debacle should read David Halberstam's magisterial book The Best and the Brightest. [1] [0] https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/a-new-take-on-general-macart... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest
记不清在哪读到过了（是大卫·哈伯斯塔姆的《The Best and the Brightest》吗？），但在1930年代，九十多岁高龄的大法官小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯（1841-1935）曾对一个年轻律师说：“年轻人，你现在对话的人，曾经和独立战争的老兵讲过话”；没记错的话，在……
Can't remember where I read this (David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest?), but in the 1930s, a nonagenarian Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) told a young lawyer, "young man, you are speaking to a man who once spoke to a veteran of the Revolution"; IIRC, in the…