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April 23, 2007
David Halberstam (1934-2007)
Halberstam, a New Yorker, Yankee's Yankee and Pulitzer Prize winner at the age of 30 for war reporting, was killed in a car accident today in San Francisco. He gave us both the idea and the book of Viet Nam as supreme American hubris in the 1972 bestseller The Best and the Brightest.
Posted by JD Hull at April 23, 2007 04:14 PM
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