Summer of '49
Summer Of ’49. By David Halberstam. (New York: Avon Books. 1989. Pp. XIV, 319.) David Halberstam was born April 10, 1934, in New York, New York. During his childhood, he would go down to the Polo Grounds and watch the Yankees, his heroes, whom he describes in his book. He graduated from Harvard University in 1955, and began his career as a war correspondent and political reporter. For the next ten years Halberstam was a lead reporter for the Daily Times Leader, New York Times, and served as a foreign correspondent in the Congo, Vietnam, Poland, and France. In 1962, The New York Times assigned Halberstam to South Vietnam. It was there that he often wrote controversial articles often questioning the official version of events in the Vietnam War. In 1964, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and after that, he continued to examine the war in a series of books and magazine articles. Over the years, Halberstam has also won numerous awards for his writing, such as, the George Polk Memorial Award, the Political Book Award and another Pulitzer Prize.
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