Author David Halberstam won a Pulitzer for chronicling Vietnam

David Halberstam
David Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War for The New York Times. He wrote "The Best and the Brightest," the acclaimed critical history of how and why the United States went to war in Vietnam.
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