David Halberstam

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Patricia Marx interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam, whose recently published novel, "One Very Hot Day," depicts the Vietnam War from a non-journalistic perspective. Halberstam discusses how 1968 Vietnam is not much improved from 1963 Vietnam, and his pessimistic feelings regarding America's future outcome.


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