The Color of Truth

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus —this biography of the Bundy Brothers inspired the Academy Award–winning film Oppenheimer . In this definitive biography of McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, two of "the best and the brightest" who advised presidents about peace and war during the most dangerous years of the Cold War, Kai Bird pens a portrait of the fiercely patriotic, brilliant, and brazenly self-confident men who directed a steady escalation of a war they did not