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Halberstam, who began covering combat in the Congo in the early 1960s before requesting a transfer to Saigon, became one of America’s prominent voices on the topic of Vietnam through his books “The Making of the Quagmire” and “The Best and the Brightest,” which both described the American involvement in Vietnam and criticized American policy...
...years later, the self-described “terrible student” has been nominated for an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa to commend his impressive career as a journalist, including his coverage of the early years of the Vietnam War for the New York Times and his 19 subsequent books...
These events have included some of the defining moments in American history—including the U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the burgeoning civil rights movements in the Deep South. And he has investigated aspects of American culture more broadly, including the cultures surrounding baseball and other sports...
...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...
MAKING A NAME IN VIETNAM...