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February 28, 2003 6:45pm AlumnaeLounge
David Halberstam is a legendary figure in American journalism. His landmark trilogy of books on power in America, The Best and the Brightest , The Powers That Be , and The Reckoning have helped define the latter part of this century more than any journalistic works, and have won him innumerable awards as well as broad critical acclaim. His last 13 books have been New York Times Best Sellers. The breadth of Halberstam's work is demonstrated by the vastly different subjects of two of his books that were number one on the best sellers list: The Best and the Brightest , and 17 years later, Summer of '49 , a nostalgic look at a pennant race -- and a very different America -- which existed forty years ago. In 1998, Halberstam released The Children , which chronicles the lives of eight young, courageous civil rights activists he met in 1960 as a reporter for The Nashville Tennessean . His September 2001 release War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals , revealed how post Cold war U.S. foreign policy has been haunted by the legacy of Vietnam. His latest national best seller is Firehouse , a moving portrait of the brave men of Engine 40, Ladder 35 in Manhattan, which lost 12 of its 13 firefighters in the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. David Halberstam began his career as the one reporter on the Daily Times Leader in West Point, Mississippi and later at The Nashville Tennessean before joining The New York Times in 1960. He first came to national prominence in the early sixties as part of a small handful of American reporters who refused to accept the official optimism about Vietnam and who reported that the war was being lost. At the age of 30, for his reporting on Vietnam, David Halberstam was awarded The Pulitzer Prize. Harper's Magazine has called Halberstam "a legend in American journalism."Newsday has praised him as simply "one of our great reporters,"and Bob Woodward of Watergate fame has called him "the journalistic father to a generation of us who went into the profession because of what he did in Vietnam."The Washington Post has referred to Halberstam as "The journalist as samurai."
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