Halberstam, David
Halberstam, David( 1934– ),New York City-born and Harvard-educated (1955) author of a great many books, mostly journalistic, but beginning with two novels: The Noblest Roman (1961), about a bootlegger who is the king of a Southern county; and One Very Hot Day (1968), treating two companies of foot soldiers, one American, the other Vietnamese. His great nonfictional work includes: The Making of a Quagmire (1965), the author's personal narrative of working during the war in South Vietnam, a major subject for his newspaper reporting that won him a Pulitzer Prize the year before; The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy (1969); Ho (1971), on Ho Chi Minh as Communist party and Vietnam leader; The Best and the Brightest (1972), a study of the workings and decisions of top U.S. political leadership; The Powers That Be (1979), an inquiry into the workings of major U.S. media; The Breaks of the...
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