David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians. After graduating from Harvard in 1955, he covered the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, then was sent overseas by the New York Times to report on the war in Vietnam. The author of fifteen bestsellers, including The Best and the Brightest, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam reporting at the age of thirty. He was killed in a car accident on April 23, 2007, while on his way to an interview for what was to be his next book.
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"A gorgeous story with personalities and anecdotes jam-packing
every page."
"Captures both the glamour and the quaintness of the late '40s,
when the corner bar, the movie palace, and the ball park were the
major entertainment centers."
"Dazzling...A celebration of a vanished heroic age and a 'simpler
America.'"
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