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Since the mid-1960s, Halberstam has penned 19 books. In addition to his reporting abroad, he covered the civil rights movement in the Deep South in the mid-1960s, and has written on American sports history, the trajectory of Robert F. Kennedy’s career, and the culture of the 1950s, among other topics...
...David L. Halberstam ’55 is quick to admit that he was far from the model student in his Harvard days...
Then a history concentrator, Halberstam says he had difficulty focusing on his schoolwork, and graduated without honors. Finishing in the bottom half of his class, Halberstam would have been hard-pressed to believe that he could ever be a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honors society...
...turned out okay,” jokes Halberstam. “For 50 years, I’ve been paid to go out and ask questions and learn things in the center of some extraordinary historical events. It has been a very rich career...
...work has been well-received not merely by Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa society. Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his incisive reporting on Vietnam, and his 1972 book “The Best and the Brightest” has since been deemed the definitive account of why and how the U.S. intervened in Vietnam...