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The Best and the Brightest
de David Halberstam
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Norwalk CT: Easton Press, 2005. SIGNED. NF. Collector's Edition. Signed by David Halberstam on publisher's limitation page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings. Bound in genuine leather, with gold stamped boards, raised bands on spine, silk moire end-papers, and satin ribbon. Some wear on bottom fore-edge gold gilt, otherwise gilt is Fine. Includes Easton Press Notes card and COA/Certificate of Authenticity.
Considered an American classic, The Best and the Brightest is the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam and why did it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded.
Sinopsis
David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0038
- Título
- The Best and the Brightest
- Autor
- David Halberstam
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Signed Easton Press
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Easton Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Norwalk, CT
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Peso
- 4.00 libras
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Collector's Editions; Easton Press; Signed Books;
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- Fine
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
