David Halberstam

One of my favorite authors with a writing range that took him from being a truth teller in Vietnam to reporting on the grace and magic of Michael Jordan was killed yesterday in an auto accident at age 73. Have read and enjoyed most if not all of his books and learn from the linked article another one, on the Korean War, is coming out this fall. From the article, Halberstam on calling a spade a spade in reporting from Vietnam:

"...“He was not antiwar,” Mr. Prochnau said. “They were cold war children, just like me, brought up on hiding under the desk.” It was simply a case, he said, of American commanders lying to the press about what was happening in Vietnam. “They were shut out and they were lied to,” Mr. Prochnau said. And Mr. Halberstam “didn’t say, ‘You’re not telling me the truth.’ He said, ‘You’re lying.’ He didn’t mince words.”..."

David Halberstam, one of the really good ones, gone.