The Best and the Brightest (136 page)

Smith, Congressman Howard

Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen

Smith, Ambassador Walter Bedel

Snow, Edgar

Solbert, Peter

Sorensen, Theodore

Souphanuvong

South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

Springsteen, George

Sproul, Dr. Robert Gordon

Staebler, Neil

Stalin, Joseph

Stanley, Oliver

Starbird, General Alfred

Stark, Admiral Harold

Steele, John

Stennis, Senator John

Stettinius, Edward

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Stilwell, General Joseph W.

Stilwell, Brigadier General Richard Giles

Stimson, Secretary of War Henry L.

strategic hamlet program

Strauss, Admiral Lewis

Sullivan, William

Sully, François

Surrey, Walter

Swidler, Joseph

Sylvester, Arthur

Symington, Senator Stuart

Taft, Senator Robert A.

Taft, President William Howard

Talese, Gay

Taussig, Charles

Taylor, General Maxwell D.

Thant, U

Thi, General Nguyen Chanh

Thieu, President Nguyen Van

Thomas, Congressman J. Parnell

Thompson, Ambassador Llewellyn

Thomson, James

Thornton, Charles

Throckmorton, General John L.

Thuan, Nguyen Dinh

Thurmond, Senator J. Strom

Trueheart, William

Trujillo, General Rafael

Truman, President Harry S.

Truman Doctrine

Tshombe, Moise

Tuchman, Barbara

Twining, General Nathan F.

Unger, Ambassador Leonard

United Nations

United Public Workers of America

United States Information Agency (USIA)

Valenti, Jack

Vallejo, Frank

Vance, Cyrus

Vandenberg, Senator Arthur

Van Fleet, General James

Vann, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul

Vanocur, Sander

Vincent, John Carter

Vinson, Congressman Carl

Viorst, Milton

Walker, General Walton

Wallace, Governor George

Wallace, Henry

Walsh, Father Edmund

Ward, Barbara

Warnecke, John Carl

Warner, Lloyd

Warnke, Paul

Watson, Marvin

Wavell, General Archibald P.

Wedemeyer, General Albert C.

Weisl, Edward

Welles, Sumner

Westmoreland, General William C.

Weyand, General Frederick C.

Whalen, Richard

Wheeler, General Earle G.

White, Harry Dexter

White, Theodore, H.

White, William

Whiting, Allen

Whiz Kids

Wicker, Tom

Wiesner, Jerome

Wilkins, Roy

Williams, Governor G. Mennen (Soapy)

Wills, Garry

Wilson, Charles E.

Wilson, Prime Minister Harold

Wilson, Colonel Wilbur

Wilson, President Woodrow

Wofford, Harris

Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury Will

World Bank

Wright, Jim

Wylie, Laurence

Yarborough, Senator Ralph W.

Yarborough, Major General William

Yarmolinsky, Professor Adam

Yeuell, Colonel Donovan

York, General Robert

Young, Earl

Young, Ambassador Kenneth Todd

Young, Whitney

Youngblood, Rufus

Zaplocki, Clem

Zorthian, Barry

About the Author

David Halberstam is the author of a number of bestselling books, including
The Fifties, Playing for Keeps, The Powers That Be
and
The Children.

ALSO BY DAVID HALBERSTAM

The Noblest Roman

Making of a Quagmire

One Very Hot Day

The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

Ho

The Powers That Be

The Reckoning

The Breaks of the Game

The Amateurs

Summer of ’49

The Next Century

The Fifties

October 1964

The Children

Playing for Keeps

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Caleb Carr

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Christopher Cerf

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Ron Chernow

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Stephen Jay Gould

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Vartan Gregorian

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Richard Howard

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Charles Johnson

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Jon Krakauer

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Edmund Morris

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Joyce Carol Oates

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Elaine Pagels

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John Richardson

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Salman Rushdie

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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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Carolyn See

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William Styron

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