[inteldump] Phillip Carter: America loses one of its best and brightest

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Posted by Phillip Carter:
America loses one of its best and brightest
http://inteldump.powerblogs.com/archives/archive_2007_04_22-2007_04_28.shtml#1177370853


   [1]David Halberstam in Vietnam Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
   [2]David Halberstam died today just south of San Francisco, the victim
   of a car crash near the Dumbarton Bridge in Menlo Park. Halberstam was
   one of America's legendary storytellers. He will forever be known for
   his reporting on Vietnam, for which he earned the Pulitzer. His
   reporting on that war, first for The New York Times and later for
   "[3]The Best and the Brightest", captured the essence of the conflict
   in its early days. His reporting also formed the mold for so many
   other brilliant journalists who would follow, including Neil Sheehan,
   Peter Arnett, and Michael Herr, among many others.
   After the war ended, he continued his brilliant journalism career,
   covering everything from baseball to politics. Two of his later books
   had a profound impact on my political education -- "[4]The Powers That
   Be" (about America's media empires) and "[5]War in a Time of Peace"
   (about U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s). I never had the chance to
   meet Mr. Halberstam, but I sure learned a lot from him.

References

   1. http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/resources/tr_halberstam.asp
   2. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5733552
   3. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0449908704?ie=UTF8&tag=inteldump-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0449908704
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