Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam\'s eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about.
He was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam and was a member of the elective Society of American Historians..
His most recent book, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, is about the Chinese entry into the Korean War.
About the Author: David Halberstam (1934-2007) was the author of 20 books, the last 14 of which have been national best-sellers.
Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war.
With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam.
Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written.
In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J.
Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam\'s eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about
