Podcasts that mention 📚 The Children by David Halberstam

another one of my favorite books is called uh it's like this no it's uh the best and the brightest David halberstam and specifically a reconstruction of the US decision to you know escalate into Vietnam

The speaker mentions this book as one of their favorites, describing it as a reconstruction of the US decision to escalate into Vietnam and highlighting the value of historical records.

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I was reading the New York Times um recently there was an article about Steve Bannon Donald Trump's Chief strategist who's having everybody read a book called the best and the brightest This is a book about how the smart Kennedy advisers uh got America into Vietnam and the the the moral of the book is meant to be or the way he sees it all these experts uh were were disastrously wrong disaster

Fareed Zakaria mentions a New York Times article stating that Steve Bannon recommends the book 'The Best and the Brightest', describing its subject matter and Bannon's interpretation of its moral.

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Those movements, like when I read David Halberstam's book, The Children, recently, featured a collection of relatively ordinary college students.

In this segment, the host reflects on having recently read David Halberstam's book, 'The Children,' which illustrates the remarkable achievements of a group of seemingly ordinary college students.

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And I was reading lately, I've been reading David Halberstam's book, The Children, on the sit-in movement.

In this episode, the host discusses reading David Halberstam's book, 'The Children,' which explores the sit-in movement.

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and you talked about uh the best and the brightest and and one of the criticisms that that book leveled against the meritocracy was precisely one of intellectual pretension and arrogance

Jordan B. Peterson refers to this book and its criticism of meritocracy.

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