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...this book as a sequel to The Best and the Brightest...
...think of it as a younger sibling to The Best and the Brightest. I hadn’t gone into that venue in 29 years, publication date to publication date. It’s going back into the same territory, but it’s different. That was more a portrait of the architects. This is more a portrait of a nation, of a society at a historic moment at the end of the Cold War and how it behaves. There’s something larger at stake, which is the change in a society when transformative events take place...
Halberstam, a former sports editor and managing editor of The Crimson, has been here before: War in a Time of Peace is a “younger sibling,” he says, to The Best and the Brightest (1972), his renowned account of the men who led the U.S. into the war in Vietnam. After covering the early civil rights movement and reporting in the field from Vietnam—for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964—Halberstam left the New York Times in 1967 and began to write books full-time two years later...
...without risk for a person considered one of the Republican Party's brightest stars. A decorated Vietnam veteran who grew up in veterans' public housing in Erie, Pa., the Governor is enormously popular in a crucial swing state. He was also high on Bush's list of potential running mates, although his support for abortion rights probably killed his chances. In his new role, he is certain to be blamed for any terrorist events that occur on his watch. "We could intercept 20 different plots," says Rendell, "but if three get carried out, he has failed...
...Brahmin university of the first third of the 20th century to a meritocratic one. Relying on demographic shifts and the detailed dissection of many of the controversies and developments of the 1930s and 1940s, the Kellers show how the University increasingly embraced the ideal of the best and the brightest, even when it came into conflict with Harvards tradition of catering to the social elite. The authors then turn to the presidency of Nathan M. Pusey 28 (1953-1971). They attempt to show how meritocracy at Harvard was continued and further refined and at the same time tell the story...