David Halberstam, 1934-2007

摘要

It was the spring of 1955, a year after Brown v. Board of Education, and David Halberstam wanted to be where the action was. Fresh from Harvard College, he set out for the Deep South, for a reporter's job on the paper in tiny West Point, Miss. The South did not get any deeper, nor newspapers any tinier, than in West Point. But the story could not have been bigger. Halberstam, who had grown up in New York, understood that a war was underway in the streets of the South and in the hearts of Americans.