David Halberstam's amazing 1993 book The Fifties was written to be a comprehensive document—not of a single decade, but of an American epoch that began with the atomic bomb dropping on Hiroshima and ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam died Monday in an automobile accident in California. He was 73. Halberstam spoke in Syracuse in 1996, during the second season of the ...

If you have a bit of time that you can set aside for reading, then you might want to tackle this book, titled “The Fifties.” It is lengthy at 800 pages in hardback, but about 25 percent of it is taken ...

Events and personalities clash in this extraordinary sequel to Halberstam's classic examination of America's road to Vietnam, The Best and the Brightest (to be reissued in September by Modern Library) ...

Even after all his decades away from the newspaper business, even after his massive books on war and civil rights and media and his much slimmer books on athletic endeavors, even after so many ...

In what fate made his final book, David Halberstam remembered a "forgotten" war, exploring the 1950-53 Korean conflict with 719 pages of foxhole-level heroism and command-level folly. It's a work ...

Originally known for his dogged, critical and ultimately correct reporting on the early stages of the Vietnam War, journalist and author David Halberstam P'02 became one of the best-known and ...

David Halberstam, one of the nation's most renowned journalists of the past half-century, died in an automobile crash Monday in California's Bay Area. On Monday night, sources reached by NashvillePost ...

The first year of the Korean War, so terrible and so filled with shattering human error, is the subject of David Halberstam’s last book, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, finished just ...

Halberstam’s wife, Jean Halberstam, said Monday that she would remember him most for his “unending, bottomless generosity to young journalists.” “For someone who obviously was so competitive with ...

NEW YORK The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released documents show. Students at the City University of New York's ...

Even scholars of U.S. foreign relations who never met David Halberstam, but came of age in the 1960s and after, felt a sense of loss at his passing in a car accident last spring. As a young New York ...