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Unfortunately, Halberstam glosses over large parts of the campaign which were extremely important -- Johnson's withdrawal, for instance. He does manage to get outside of the press bus in his limited description of the campaign, though...
...DAVID HALBERSTAM'S The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy is strong where Witcover's 85 Days is weak. It is essentially a "mood piece" presenting the milieu in which the events of the campaign took place...
...Much of Halberstam's work appeared in Harper's when he was covering the contemporary political scene for the magazine. His analysis of the background of Kennedy's campaign--the alienation over the war and Kennedy's rapport with minority groups--is acute. He understood what was happening and why it was happening better than many of his contemporaries on the campaign trail...
Lowenstein's plan to try to dump President Johnson was received as the mad plan of a New York professor-lawyer during the fall of 1967; he is now a Congressman from Long Island whom most "humanist liberals" and experienced political observers like David Halberstam regard as a responsible national leader...
...scholar, Morris has long breathed the breezes of freewheeling dissent that blow through Austin. For two years, he edited the controversial Texas Observer, which startled and infuriated many Texans with its outspoken views on almost any topic. Joining Morris on the staff will be two new contributing editors: David Halberstam, 33, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, and Larry King, 38, a freelancer who has written extensively for Harper's. Managing Editor Russell Lynes is being replaced by Senior Editor Robert Kotlowitz, 42. Like Fischer, Lynes will continue to write a column. "These additions," said Fischer, "will...