The Best and The Brightest Author:David Halberstam The most important book of the seventies. David Halberstam, one of America's most brilliant and respected journalists, first came to national prominence early in the '60s with his reports from Vietnam for The New York Times. These dispatches earned for him the Pulitzer Prie and several other awards. Commentary called him "the Times' most exce... more »ptional reporter of recent years," and Harper's termed him "A legend in American journalism."« less