This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. David Halberstam, gone in a senseless, instantaneous car crash on Monday, and the world goes on without one of our best journalists, one of our ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash Monday, a coroner said.

David Halberstam refused to take the reports as gospel. But the cynical Halberstam wanted to see for himself.

Journalist David Halberstam, who produced a steady stream of well-regarded books on topics as diverse as Vietnam, civil rights and the 1949 American League pennant race, died as he lived: On his way ...

In 1997, David Halberstam published a 25th anniversary edition of his 1972 best-seller, "The Best and the Brightest," he penned a new introduction for it and he did not hold back on whom he thought ...

When we met in Saigon in May 1963, David Halberstam was only 29, but he was already the dominant figure among an influential group of journalists who reported what they observed even when it ...

Larry Mantle talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Halberstam about his book War In A Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals(Simon & Schuster). Halberstam examines what happens when ...

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