| 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)
University: BA Journalism, Harvard University (1955)
The New York Times 1960 Foreign correspondent
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
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)
The Fifties (1993, nonfiction)
The Children (1998, nonfiction)
Playing For Keeps (1999, biography of Michael Jordan)
Firehouse (2002, nonfiction, on men involved in 9/11 aftermath)
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