Jeffrey Lord has a terrific article at American Spectator titled ‘Hillary and The Cult of ‘Best and Brightest’.  It really is a must read, but a key component of the piece is a reference to the book by David Halberstam The Best and the Brightest. In fact, this … musing is only the modern version of exactly what David Halberstam described in The Best and The Brightest over three decades ago. The Best and The Brightest, of course, was the famous 1970s bestseller by the late New York Times reporter David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize winner. Halberstam chronicled the tragic tale of those liberal policymakers of the 1960s who were “modern, activist, contemporary men -- the best and the brightest -- who came to Washington to build us a Camelot and left behind them a country divided by war, torn by dissent.” He described these people, men with names like Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, William P. Bundy, Dean Rusk, and of course Presidents...(Read Full Article)