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Chapter I





Born: April 10, 1934 - New York, New York

FAfter graduating from Harvard University, Halberstam worked as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean (1956-60). He joined the New York Times in 1960 and was a foreign correspondent in the Congo, Vietnam, and Poland, receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1964. With The Making of a Quagmire (1965) and Ho (1971), he began a series of books about politics and international relations, focusing on the Vietnam War. The Best and the Brightest (1972), a highly critical study of the leading foreign-policy figures in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, became enormously successful and made
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Halberstam's name widely known. It was followed by such books as The Powers That Be (1979), about the increasing power of the news media; The Reckoning (1986), about the Japanese and American auto industries; The Fifties (1993), about American culture
Works by Benjamin Franklin
Dictionary of American Literary Characters
Experiments in Electricity
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac
The Way to Wealth
Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
Bagatelles from Passy
Cool Thoughts on The Present Situation of Our Public Affairs
through the decade; and The Children (1998), about Southern civil-rights advocates of the 1960s. His books about baseball and other sports include Playing for Keeps (1999), about Michael Jordan. Halberstam's novels include The Noblest Roman (1961) and One Very Hot Day (1968).

Web sites about Benjamin Franklin
Franklin: An Enlightened American
Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History



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