Playboy Interview: David Halberstam

August, 1973

a candid conversation with the pulitzer prize--winning vietnam journalist and best-selling author of "the best and the brightest"At 39, David Halberstam may be--to use seriously the ironic title of his book on the power elite that embroiled America in Southeast Asia--"the best and the brightest" reporter in the business. By any reckoning, he is the most outspoken and influential of the Vietnam war correspondents. "The Best and the Brightest," which is riding high on...

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