Author
David Halberstam
3 award wins, 2 nominations across 4 books.
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
The Best and the Brightest
688 pages
David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic.From the Hardcover edition.
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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The Reckoning
786 pages
Compares and contrasts two companies, Ford and Nissan, from the founders and owners right down to the men on the assembly line.
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
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