Probably because he didn't have an editor. That's why each of his books is larger than the Oxford English Dictionary.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> <http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=518467>
>
> “It’s obvious that he [David Halberstam] was
> probably the greatest
> journalist of his generation. He had a core
> integrity that gave him
> credibility and power, whether he was writing about
> basketball or
> Vietnam it carried an enormous amount of weight,”
> said Pulitzer Prize-
> winning journalist J. Anthony Lewis ’48, a former
> Crimson managing
> editor. “He was a sweet man—loyal, kind, thoughtful.
> I just didn’t
> know anybody who is a better representation of
> journalism.”
>
>
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