Talk:David Halberstam

message: Surely Halberstam's article should contain refrence to his story on Thích Quảng Ðức's self-immolation. Ka5hmir 09:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Thích Quảng Ðức?

message: Are we sure this is correct?
"He was a passenger in a car broadsided by another vehicle--ironically driven by a journalism school student--while making a left turn across opposing traffic..."
Where is a source for the information that the driver of the car that hit him is a journalism student? In the linked articles, it says "The driver of the car carrying Halberstam is a student at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley..." and this " Acker would not release further details of the accident." Is this an error or is there a source?
---CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/halberstam.death/index.html) agrees that the driver of the hit car was a graduate student, not the driver of the car that broadsides them. Newtman 04:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Error in "Death" section

message: Isn't saying someone is American the same as saying they are European?  America is not a country and American is not a nationality, the term refers to two continents and three geograhic zones in the western hemisphere.----wsb05/21/2007
:See Use of the word American.  --Coolcaesar 18:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Issue with nationality

message: There has been no substantial contribution to this Talk page since August 2007 (immediate above, now section 7.1), or 75 months ago! (diff 2007-08-10 to 2013-11-01)
The page is not so long (or so active!) that it should be archived, afaik. Hereafter the history from 2013-11-01 will show whether anyone has inserted comment above. 
--P64 (talk) 18:35, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007 to 2013 

message: My complex revision today is substantial only regarding the first part of its edit summary, the portion underlined here:
: specify Pulitzer Prize w official ref; add Ext links {LCAuth} and thus Catalog, LCCN, GND; // ALSO BEGIN to reduce WP:OVERLINKage and to format apostrophe, dash, date, title, ref
The second part of that refers to my insertion at the end of External links:
;Bibliography
* 
(There now 48 catalog records, a number that I did not specify as the third template parameter value.)
Regarding Pulitzer Prize(s) the official website shows DH a winner only "for International Reporting" in 1964, only a finalist for later books (Search: halberstam). In today's edit I ignored the finalists, provided an official reference for the 1964 prize (multiple locations), re-arranged the specification of prize for International Reporting (multiple locations), and made this change in section Criticism:
: "all won Pulitzer Prizes for their post-war works on the war."
Because DH himself, at least, was a PP winner only as war correspondent, not for subsequent work.
All the rest is insubstantial. Within references, date locations and formats are now consistent. I didn't make a decision about authorname format —firstlast or lastfirst— simply moved author names to the front (along with mdy publ dates).
--P64 (talk) 18:35, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Today's edit

message: I removed the following sentence fragment from the section: deriding them as "typewriter strategists" who were "seldom at the scenes of battle." The citation listed did not support the content. I tried google searching the phrases and came up with no original source. I also searched her book "Our Vietnam nightmare and again could find no trace of the quotes. If someone can provide the source then by all means add the material back in. ~ Alcmaeonid (talk) 22:57, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the quote in a RS, please refer to page 243 of Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A. J. Langguth.--A.S. Brown (talk) 02:42, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[David Halberstam#Criticism]] edit