Halberstam’s Parting Shot at a Beleaguered White House
July 25, 2007
I was first introduced to David Halberstam during my freshman year United States Foreign Policy class. His War in a Time of Peace was required reading.
I’ve never been quite so impressed with a writer of nonfiction as I was with Halberstam. Despite my profound distraction from academics during that turbulent year, his incisive prose stuck with me. That’s why I immediately snatched up August’s Vanity Fair when I saw the words “David Halberstam’s Last Dispatch: How the White House Flunks History” printed on the cover.
I was not disappointed, in his wonderful article The History Boys, Halberstam skewers the Bush administration with a precision that its many other critics often lack.
That was a great article. I also enjoyed War in a Time of Peace, it’s just a shame that Halberstam won’t be around to produce a larger work on this administration’s War on Terror(TM)
Mark: It really is. I’m sure he had some notes on it somewhere, which will likely be published in some form before too long.