Halberstam, David (1934–2007)

US journalist. He worked as a war correspondent and is best known for his indictment of US involvement in the Vietnam War in The Best and the Brightest (1973). He was also a historian and sports writer.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964 for his coverage of the Vietnam War and the overthrow of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem.

He was born and in the Bronx, New York, and earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1955. As a New York Times reporter during the mid-1960s, he covered the civil rights movement. His other books include The Fifties (1993), October 1964 (1995), The Amateurs (1996), The Children (1998), Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World That He Made (1999), War in a Time of Peace (2001), and Firehouse (2002).