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October 3, 1997

Award-winning journalist David Halberstam to speak at Purdue

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.-- David Halberstam, journalist, author and historian, will present a lecture, "America: The Challenge to Be Authentic in an Age of Excessive Popular Culture," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Loeb Playhouse in Stewart Center at Purdue University. The lecture is presented by the Distinguished Lecture Series in cooperation with Purdue Convocations and is free and open to the public.

Halberstam first came to national prominence in the early '60s as part of a small group of American reporters who refused to accept official optimism about Vietnam and who reported that the war was being lost. For his Vietnam reporting, Halberstam, at the age of 30, was awarded The Pulitzer Prize and every other major journalistic award. Harper's magazine has called him "a legend in American journalism."

Halberstam is the author of several best-selling books, including a critically acclaimed trilogy on power in America, "The Best and the Brightest," "The Powers That Be" and "The Reckoning." His other books include "The Fifties" and two books about baseball, "October 1964" and "Summer of '49."
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