Antiwar Critics Forgotten on Oscar Night

Here’s how, in his classic Vietnam War history, The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam summed up Washington life via the career of Dean Rusk, the hawkish secretary of state under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson: “If you are wrong on the hawkish side of an event you are all right; if you … Continue reading “Antiwar Critics Forgotten on Oscar Night”