- Foreign relations, Politics and government, United States, Vietnam
“This is David Halberstam’s long-awaited book on America in the last decade - the story of what happened when the best and the brightest men in the country came to Washington, to serve the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and exercised, or failed to exercise, their power in office.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- David Halberstam
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 688
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Fawcett Crest, Random House
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394461632
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David Halberstam was an American journalist and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. In 2007, while doing research for a book, Halberstam was killed in a car crash. - Wikipedia
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