Quotes About David Halberstam

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story)

The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact.

Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.

For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.