Halberstam focused on the paradox that those who shaped the U.S. Halberstam's most well known work is The Best and the Brightest. He is interviewed in the 1968 documentary film on the Vietnam War entitled In the Year of the Pig. At the age of 30, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the war. In 1963, he received a George Polk Award for his reporting at the New York Times. While there, he gathered material for his book The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era.
In the mid 1960s, Halberstam covered the Vietnam War for The New York Times. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee, he covered the beginnings of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Halberstam graduated from Harvard University with a degree in journalism in 1955 and started his career writing for the Daily Times Leader in West Point, Mississippi. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. 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.
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