David Halberstam Born: 10-Apr-1934 Birthplace: New York City Died: 23-Apr-2007 Location of death: Menlo Park, CA Cause of death: Accident - Automobile
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Journalist, Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Powers That Be Father: Charles Halberstam (surgeon) Mother: Blanche (teacher) Brother: Michael Halberstam (cardiologist, d. 1980 murder, home invasion) Wife: Elzbieta Czyzewska (actress, m. 13-Jun-1965, div. 1975) Wife: Jean Halberstam (one daughter)
High School: Roosevelt High School, Yonkers, NY University: BA Journalism, Harvard University (1955)
Harper's Contributing Editor (1967-71) The New York Times Foreign correspondent (1960-67) The Nashville Tennessean Reporter (1956-60) West Point Daily Times Leader Reporter (1952-56)
The Harvard Crimson Academy of Achievement (1994) Women's Campaign Forum Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting 1964 on the Vietnam War Polk Award 1963 Draft Deferment: Korea 2-S Autopsy
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Vietnam: In the Year of the Pig (25-Oct-1968) · Himself
Author of books:
The Noblest Roman (1961, novel) The Making of a Quagmire (1965, nonfiction) One Very Hot Day (1968, novel) Ho (1971, biography) The Best and the Brightest (1972, nonfiction) The Powers That Be (1975, nonfiction) The Reckoning (1986, nonfiction) Summer of '49 (1989, sports) The Fifties (1993, nonfiction) October 1964 (1994, sports) The Children (1998, nonfiction) Playing For Keeps (1999, biography of Michael Jordan) Firehouse (2002, nonfiction, on men involved in 9/11 aftermath) The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (2003, nonfiction) The Education of a Coach (2005, nonfiction) The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (2007, nonfiction)
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