David Halberstam dies in car crash
by sernabad
David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, was killed in a car accident yesterday near San Francisco.
His seminal work on the conflict in Vietnam, The Best and The Brightest (1972), was one of three books he wrote on warfare. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (2001), considered the unofficial sequel to The Best and the Brightest, follows the lasting effects of the Vietnam War. The Coldest War, scheduled for publication this fall, examines the Korean War.
Halberstam wrote on a wide variety of topics. He died while on his way to interview Y.A. Tittle, a quarterback for the New York Giants in the 1960s for a book on the legendary Giants/Baltimore Colts Super Bowl V game of 1958.
Halberstam was 73.
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