Talk:The Best and the Brightest

Legacy

For real? The book's "legacy" is that Steve Bannon suggested staffers read it in 2017? That's such weak sauce, that I suggest the entire section be deleted. 68.56.244.2 (talk) 15:17, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Title

I think Halberstam explicitly states somewhere in the book, probably in an introduction, that the title comes from a much more logical source than a Shelly poem--rather the common phrase as it was in the time, "Brightest and Best," simply turned around. Perhaps someone with a copy of it at hand could check it out... I found a section on the title (page xix in the 1992 trade paperback edition) that talks about the title, but doesn't claim he invented the phrase and does not attribute it to Shelley or the hymn. I edited the summary to add that information. Wsacul 23:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

additional Best & Brightest theme

In addition to the insightful themes already listed in this entry, I suggest this:

Despite signficant contributions of the United States' smartest people of their day, they collectively created poorly-thought out policies that ended in disaster. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tamon (talk • contribs) 17:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC).

In 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf she wrote in the appendix that it was by Percy Bysshe Shelley and it could be found in 'To Jane: the Invitation' (1822) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.2.60.8 (talk) 21:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

John McCain did not write a foreword

I am deleting the claim that John McCain wrote a foreword to the 20th edition (and also note that it should correctly have been called the 20th anniversary edition). The New York Times article cited to support this claim was wrong. I will keep the quote from McCain that was taken from that same Times article on the assumption that they got the quote right even though they gave the wrong source. Bobstar2 (talk)

Disambiguation

The bottom of the article notes a Star Trek novel of the same name - I suggest The Best and the Brightest (disambiguation) as there may be even more citations of use besides these two very different books. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.253.4.21 (talk) 17:15, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Possibly due to the above issue, on the thumbnail which appears in the right hand of the Bing search page for this book, the aforementioned Star Trek book cover is shown. The site appears to be accessing the picture from paperbackswap.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.5.88.70 (talk) 13:03, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

There is also a movie coming out under the same name with Neil Patrick Harris, so I think a disambiguation page would be prudent —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.184.211 (talk) 22:19, 23 March 2011 (UTC)